Lieberman Talks About Accountability Act

WASHINGTON, DC 12/04/12 Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) speaks at a press conference after the Senate voted to pass the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, as Sen. Joseph Lieberman, (I-CT), Sen. Ben Cardin, (D-MD), Sen. Roger Wicker, (R-MS), and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, (D-NH) (l-r) wait to comment and answer questions from the press at a Capitol press room. Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer who died after being held in a Russian prison without trial for 11 months. The law, enacted in Magnitsky's honor, is the result of an international outcry against Russia's human rights abuses.

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( CLOE POISSON|cpoisson@courant.com / December 13, 2012 )

WASHINGTON, DC 12/04/12 Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) speaks at a press conference after the Senate voted to pass the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, as Sen. Joseph Lieberman, (I-CT), Sen. Ben Cardin, (D-MD), Sen. Roger Wicker, (R-MS), and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, (D-NH) (l-r) wait to comment and answer questions from the press at a Capitol press room. Magnitsky was a Russian lawyer who died after being held in a Russian prison without trial for 11 months. The law, enacted in Magnitsky's honor, is the result of an international outcry against Russia's human rights abuses.

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