Ben Cardin: “We should be pressing for the release of the several dozen political prisoners still in jail.”

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

We need to consider how we deal with that.

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

We are going to do something about this.