Benjamin L. Cardin: “If we do not put humanitarian aid there, these nations that are critical for stability in the Middle East region could…”

We imposed sanctions on the individual.

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well

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

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.