Press Release: Statement by the spokesperson of EU High Representative Catherine Ashton on the case of Sergey Magnitsky

On 12 July EU High Representative Catherine Ashton expressed her concern over the guilty verdict issued by the Tverskoi court in Moscow against Sergey Magnitsky and William Browder. Mr Magnitsky has been posthumously declared a criminal on the basis of unfair procedures and unconvincing evidence, while neither the corruption scandal he helped to uncover nor the circumstances of his death have been clarified.

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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