Benjamin L. Cardin: “It is so important for the agencies to have the resources necessary to carry out our policies, and part of that is…”

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

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

I thank Senator Cardin for his 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.