UCSJ » U.S. President http://www.ucsj.org Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union | Fighting for human rights and the rule of law. Since 1970. Fri, 24 May 2013 21:08:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Obama Signs Magnitsky Bill Into Law http://www.ucsj.org/2012/12/14/obama-signs-magnitsky-bill-into-law/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obama-signs-magnitsky-bill-into-law http://www.ucsj.org/2012/12/14/obama-signs-magnitsky-bill-into-law/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:59:48 +0000 UCSJ http://www.ucsj.org/?p=1211 Read the UCSJ President’s Message Regarding UCSJ’s work with this bill here.

Dec 14 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a bill that modernizes U.S. trade relations with Russia by ending a Cold War-era provision, but also punishes Russian human rights violators.

Russia has objected strongly to the human rights component of the legislation named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian anti-corruption lawyer who died in 2009 in a Russian jail.

On Friday, the lower house of Russia’s parliament gave preliminary approval to a tit-for-tat measure against U.S. human rights violators.

 

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