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00:00one year ago on the 16th of November 2009 a Russian lawyer died in a Moscow
00:09pretrial detention center his name was Sergei Magnitsky his death
00:17fueled outrage among politicians and world leaders and in the streets of Moscow
00:28Sergei Magnitsky is arrested after he uncovers the largest tax fraud in Russian history committed
00:34by officials of the Russian government this particular fraud seems to be of enormous
00:40size nobody ever heard anything even close to that before Magnitsky testifies
00:47against the officials involved one month later he's arrested by those same officials and put
00:52in pretrial detention for over 11 months they put him in dungeon-like conditions you know with cells
00:59without the windows and all the humidity and they would turn off his hot water and flooded the sewage
01:04while incarcerated Magnitsky falls ill but despite him making over 450 official complaints the
01:14investigator denies all requests for the medical attention he needs he's ΡΠ΅ΡΠΊΠΎΠ΅ ΠΎΡΡΡΠ΅Π½ΠΈΠ΅ ΡΡΠΎ Π΅ΠΌΡ Π±ΡΠ»ΠΈ
01:22ΡΠΎΠ·Π΄Π°Π½Ρ ΡΠ°ΠΊΠΈΠ΅ ΡΡΠ»ΠΎΠ²ΠΈΡ ΠΊΠΎΡΠΎΡΡΠ΅ ΠΌΠΎΠ³Π»ΠΈ ΠΏΡΠΈΠ²Π΅ΡΡΠΈ ΠΊ Π΅Π³ΠΎ ΡΠΌΠ΅ΡΡΠΈ Sergei Magnitsky dies on November 16th 2009
01:33the independent investigator into his death concludes
01:35μ ΠΏΠΎΠ³ΠΈΠ± ΠΎΠ½ΠΈ Π΅Π³ΠΎ ΡΠ±ΠΈΠ»ΠΈ ΠΌΠΎΠΆΠ½ΠΎ ΡΠΊΠ°Π·Π°ΡΡ ΡΠ°ΠΊ ΡΠΎΠ·Π΄Π°Π² ΡΠ°ΠΊΠΈΠ΅ ΡΡΠ»ΠΎΠ²ΠΈΡ
01:52available
01:53now on iTunes
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