trial of a corpse in Russia

Some things never change. Russia’s abuse of human rights continues, despite the fall of the old ‘bad’ Soviet Union.

Nowhere in the European Convention on Human Rights does it say a dead man cannot be put on trial. The concept is so absurd that its authors would never have imagined this to be relevant. Yet the conviction of the late Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky epitomises Moscow

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