Benjamin L. Cardin: “I was going to rebut Senator Wicker's comments, but I think I will allow the Secretary to testify.”

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

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

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.

We are going to do something about this.