“Five weeks after Sergei testified, the same officials whom he testified against arrested him, put him in pre-trial detention in Russia, where he was then tortured to get him to withdraw his testimony,” Browder (pictured) told CBS in 2022.
Magnitsky died in a Russian jail in 2009, allegedly after being beaten and denied medical care.
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His name currently adorns the Magnitsky Act, the law that allows the US government to sanction foreign officials who are human rights offenders.
Putin has consistently said Magnitsky died of a heart attack.
