Stop the Untouchables. Justice for Sergei Magnitsky.

UK MPs to stage debate over Russia’s human rights record

BBC

Three former foreign secretaries are backing a Commons debate and vote on Russia’s human rights record which will take place next week.

It is widely expected that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will return as President in this weekend’s election.

The Commons debate will focus on the case of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer investigating tax fraud who was found dead in Moscow in 2009.

MPs claim it illustrates deeper and wider human rights problems in Russia.

The debate was granted after a request by Conservative Dominic Raab and former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband to the Commons Backbench Business Committee.