Advisers to seek Putin's rejection of planned ban on adoptions by Americans (Part- 2)
MOSCOW. Dec 26 (Interfax) - Russia's Human Rights Council, a presidential advisory body, will put before President Vladimir Putin negative comments on draft legislation that would forbid Americans to adopt Russian children, the council chairman said after the upper house of parliament passed the bill earlier on Wednesday.
"We still hold a negative opinion on the articles on adoption," Mikhail Fedotov told Interfax.
The planned adoption ban is part of a bill designed as a form of retaliation for the United States' draft Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, which would impose visa and financial sanctions on Russian officials blamed for Magnitsky's allegedly unlawful arrest and his death in a Moscow jail in 2009.
The American bill has passed both houses of Congress and is awaiting presidential endorsement to become law.
On Tuesday, Russia's Human Rights Council published an assessment saying the proposed retaliatory law would run against the Russian constitution and international law and needed amendment.
However, The Federation Council approved the "anti-Magnitsky" bill on Wednesday.