Canada has decided to create legislation to expand the country’s international sanctions law to target gross human rights violators. This was stated by Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland in Parliament yesterday.
Last month a Parliament committee agreed to support the amendment of Canada’s sanctions rules to include rights violators and acting in honor of the Russian whistle blower Sergei Magnitsky.
Sergei died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after accusing officials of a 230 million dollar tax fraud. Russia’s Presidential council on human rights said Sergei was beaten and denied medical treatment while in jail.
