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Inquiry: Magnitsky Beaten by Guards
Eight prison guards severely beat lawyer Sergei Magnitsky shortly before his 2009 death in pretrial detention, an activist said Tuesday, providing a new twist to allegations that Magnitsky had been tortured in prison.
An account of the beating is included in a 40-page report on Magnitsky’s death that the Kremlin’s human rights council presented to President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday, said Valery Borshchyov, who headed an independent investigation into the death that formed the basis for the report.
The report also lays blame on prison hospital staff and the investigators who jailed Magnitsky for his death.
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Russian Investigator Cleared in Prison Death
Russian prosecutors exonerated the lead investigator in the case of Sergei Magnitsky, a hedge-fund attorney who died in jail after what colleagues said was an attempt to expose a massive theft of government funds in 2009.
Acitivists conducting an independent probe of the case called the ruling a whitewash of the case, despite President Dmitry Medvedev’s repeated promises of a full investigation. The handling of Mr. Magnitsky’s death has emerged as a litmus test of Mr. Medvedev’s willingness to investigate corruption in the security services, whose strength and clout have crept throughout the Russian economy.
Russia’s powerful Investigative Committee issued a three-paragraph statement Monday absolving the investigator in the case, Oleg Silchenko, of any blame, saying he had “not allowed” any legal violations in the case.
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Cold comfort for Magnitsky cause
A trio of positive signals from Russian authorities offers scant cause for celebration among friends and family of dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
“The investigation has made significant progress,” President Medvedev told journalists in a televised question and answer session on Wednesday afternoon. He added that Russian investigators are to help Swiss counterparts and that the circumstances and actual causes of Magnitsky’s death “will be known soon.”
Suspect tax officials will be inspected closely, he added something that Magnitsky’s colleagues have been demanding since the lawyer’s death in custody in November 2009.
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