Benjamin L. Cardin: “The nitrogen levels in the Bay are critically important to achieving our goals.”

Nowhere has this been more on display than what has occurred in Hong Kong in recent years as the passage of the National Security Law and entry into force of Article 23 destroyed what remains of Hong Kong's democracy.

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.

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.