There was some progress made. Five hundred prisoners were released, but at the same time, 750 were detained, so the net was actually more political prisoners than the year before.
Discussing the mixed results of conditionality in U.S. aid to Egypt.
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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.
Why do we not widen this piece of legislation out so it includes all human rights abusers in Russia?
If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well
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