Senators Ask Biden for Russia-Related Sanction Determination
Two lawmakers are asking President Joe Biden to determine whether Russia’s imprisonment of opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza constitutes a human rights violation and should be met with sanctions. In a letter to Biden last week, Sens. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Robert Menendez, D-N.J., said Kara-Murza’s “history of defending and promoting human rights” and his opposition to the war in Ukraine may have led to assassination attempts against him in 2015 and 2017 and to his “current wrongful imprisonment.”
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“We request that you make determinations regarding whether any foreign person is responsible for any such violations related to Mr. Kara-Murza, and if so, regarding the imposition of sanctions, consistent with the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act,” the two said. Under the law, Biden has 120 days to make a sanctions determination after receiving a request to do so from lawmakers.