Ben Cardin: “My concern is are we giving countries a free pass who are partners in our counterterrorism campaigns, on human rights…”

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

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.

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