Benjamin L. Cardin: “Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.”

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

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

Senator Cardin, I thank you for your leadership in championing the Global Magnitsky Act.

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.