Benjamin L. Cardin: “If Putin succeeds, he will be turning back the clock on international law around the world.”

Freedom House is pleased to support the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act, led by Chairman Cardin.

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.

Senator Cardin, I thank you for your leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.