Ben Cardin: “There must be an urgency in Thailand proceeding with democratic elections and dealing with its human rights issues.”

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.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

We need to consider how we deal with that.

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