Press Release
Originally sent by Hermitage Capital 2/29/12
Yesterday, the European Parliament delegation in the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee held an extraordinary meeting on the case of Sergei Magnitsky which resulted in the adoption of a statement calling for immediate EU travel bans and asset freezes on the Russian officials responsible for the false arrest, torture and death of Sergei Magnitsky. The Sergei Magnitsky Statement was adopted unanimously (with one abstention).
The statement of the European Parliament Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee said:
“Urges the EU Member States to start immediately procedures to enact measures such as a EU-wide travel ban and a freeze on the financial assets of those believed to be guilty of the torture and death of Sergei Magnitsky as well as of covering up the case.”
The Statement notes “the failure to punish those guilty of his death” in Russia.
The Statement pays tribute to Sergei Magnitsky, recognizing him as “one among many people who have been fighting for freedom, democracy and the rule of law in Russia and who died while pursuing this endeavour.”
Members of the European Delegation have instructed its Chair, Knut Fleckenstein, who abstained during the vote, to forward the resolution to the President of the European Parliament, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament and Russian delegates in the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.
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