Benjamin L. Cardin: “The United States cannot sit on the sidelines, as you pointed out. It has got to be a collective action.”

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

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

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.