MEPs to Mogherini: Stop ignoring us on Russia sanctions

A cross-party group of Members of the European Parliament urged the European External Action Service (EEAS) to stop ignoring the European Parliament on Magnitsky sanctions.

Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian anti-corruption activist, died in jail in 2009 in what EU Council chief Herman Van Rompuy once called an “emblematic case” for lack of law and order in Russia.

The EP has urged EU diplomats in four resolutions since 2010 to follow the United States in blacklisting the Russian officials implicated in the killing.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: EU: Magnitsky verdict is 'disturbing' sign of Putin's Russia http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-magnitsky-verdict-is-disturbing-sign-of-putins-russia/

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