Kremlin Rights Council Starts Naming Names

The Kremlin human rights council has implicated a group of law enforcement and judiciary officials in the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in pretrial detention in 2009. The report, which sums up an independent investigation and was posted on the council’s web site Wednesday, lists among the officials: investigators Oleg Silchenko, Artyom Kuznetsov and Pavel Karpov, Moscow district Judge Sergei Podoprigorov and prison doctor Alexandra Gaus. Despite naming […]