Benjamin L. Cardin: “We think the United States has to work with our partners in South America to make it clear that that was not an election…”

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.

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.

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.

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