Ben Cardin: “I appreciate that. And then I want to get to a topic that you and I talked about in my office, and that is torture.”

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

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

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.

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