Benjamin L. Cardin: “The Transnational Repression Policy Act... includes provisions in all these areas and we urge its passage.”

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.

That is why virtually every international aid organization that has operated worldwide for decades says they have never experienced a worse manmade humanitarian disaster than that in Gaza.

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.

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