Benjamin L. Cardin: “The local capacity is there and it is making a huge difference.”

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.

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.

The use of defamation laws, foreign agent registration laws, and anti-NGO laws to silence free speech is nothing new.

We imposed sanctions on the individual.