Late US Senator McCain Honored for Defending Russian Human Rights

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Source: voanews.com

LONDON — U.S. Sen. John McCain was posthumously given the 2018 Sergei Magnitsky Human Rights Award in a ceremony in London on Thursday night. The award recognizes those who have fought for human rights in Russia and is named after a lawyer who was killed in a Moscow jail in 2009. <snip>

<snip> John McCain became a prominent critic of Donald Trump’s dealings with Russian leader Putin, criticism that the U.S. president strongly rejected.

McCain died in August from brain cancer at age 81.

Several other awards were made Thursday night, including to Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, and to the Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year jail term in Russia.



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Let us remember this day, the ninth anniversary of his death, the brave soul of Sergei Magnitsky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Magnitsky


And thank you Senator McCain for standing as, even though we did not agree on everything, a principled man of honor.

[Leghorn21]

1. Thank you for posting, blue

Alexei Navalny



Oleg Sentsov



Also, thank you Bill Browder

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[Silver1]

3. Russian people.

Sometimes around here, Russians are portrayed as just awful. The enemy. But they're people no different than any other, Thanks for taking the time.

[yardwork]

7. I don't see that. Putin and murderous oligarchs who have Russia by the throat are the enemy.

Russian people who gave their lives while resisting Putin's fascist dictatorship are being honored here.

[SunSeeker]

2. With McCain's death, so went the last of Republican courage to support heroes like Sergei Magnitsky.

[iluvtennis]

4. +++ agree

[yardwork]

8. Unfortunately, that seems to be true. It looks like the GOP is now on Putin's payroll.

[Ciaphas Cain]

5. ☆

Democrats have done a better job of honoring McCain than the Republican party ever has.

Thanks for posting this

[alwaysinasnit]

6. K&R Thanks for posting.