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The death in prison of Sergei Magnitsky, a young Russian lawyer, remains one of the darkest scandals in the blotchy hist | dG1fM3JOV3pjaEFRbUE
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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 четкое ощущение что ему были
01:22созданы такие условия которые могли привести к его смерти Sergei Magnitsky dies on November 16th 2009
01:33the independent investigator into his death concludes
01:35을 погиб они его убили можно сказать так создав такие условия
01:52available
01:53now on iTunes
01:54For more information visit www.fema.org
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