Dear Secretaries, Blinken and Yellen:
As an Institute dedicated to the universal promotion of human rights and the fight against corruption and the promotion of the rule of law, we commend you for your commitment to implementing the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (PL 114-328, Subtitle F), which authorizes the President of the United States to impose financial sanctions and visa restrictions on foreign persons in response to certain human rights violations and acts of significant corruption. We hope that the Biden administration will engage in “Robust and thorough enforcement” of the Act, and that the President will “fulfill his commitment to hold perpetrators of human rights abuses and corruption accountable.”
“Global Magnitsky” is a potentially groundbreaking legal weapon