Benjamin L. Cardin: “I can assure you that we heard you loud and clear, and we will very much be engaged.”

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

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.

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

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