Anti-Magnitsky Act bill passed by Duma is unconstitutional - presidential Human Rights Council
MOSCOW. Dec 25 (Interfax) - A bill intended to retaliate for the U.S.' Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012, which the Russian State Duma passed recently and which will be considered by the Federal Council on Wednesday, violates the Russian Constitution and Russia's international agreements and needs revision, the presidential Human Rights Council said.
"The bill's entrance into effect in its current version cannot achieve the objectives pursued but can entail negative consequences for both the domestic legal system and in other fields," the Human Rights Council said in a statement published on its website on Tuesday.
The statement was signed by 35 out of the 63 Human Rights Council members, including Yelizaveta Glinka, Pavel Gusev, Tamara Morshchakova, Leonid Pardyonov, Pavel Chikov, Igor Yurgens and others.
