Ben Cardin: “Freedom House is pleased to support the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act, led by Chairman Cardin.”

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.

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

We need to consider how we deal with that.