Ben Cardin: “The government's reaction was brutal, and its subsequent actions can only be interpreted as a campaign to crush the…”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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

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

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.