Ben Cardin: “U.S. international broadcasting is an integral component of our efforts to advance freedom of expression and freedom of…”

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

There is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K.

It was originally a piece of legislation targeting the people who killed Sergei Magnitsky.

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.