Mr. Browder: Sergei Magnitsky

U.S. Senate Dept: His efforts are starting to pay off. Last week, the U.S. Senate passed the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, which denies visas and freezes the assets of Russians accused of human-rights violations. Now Mr. Browder is asking for a similar response from Canadian authorities, according to Globe and Mail. Mr. Browder met earlier in the day with Immigration Minister Jason Kenney, who took binders of evidence on the 60 Russians accused by Mr. Browder of being complicit in Mr. Magnitsky s death. The Minister told him there are existing statutes under which people can be banned from entering Canada, and Mr. Browder is now hopeful that the government will determine if they apply in these cases and so when the 37-year-old lawyer was refused treatment in prison for a pancreatic condition, subjected to repeated torture, and, according to his supporters, beaten to death by guards in the fall of 2009, Mr. Browder decided to devote much of his time to publicizing the case and securing justice for the man who had worked doggedly to bring the Russian corruption to light. The case of Sergei Magnitsky really lays bare the criminality at the top of the Russian government, he told reporters in Ottawa on Tuesday. The Russian government has refused to prosecute anybody involved. And so I have spent the last three years looking for other means of justice. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.