Ben Cardin: “The United States has pushed consistently for full implementation of electoral reforms in Azerbaijan recommended by…”

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

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

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.

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