WASHINGTON: The US yesterday voiced disappointment at a Russian court’s posthumous conviction of late Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky for tax evasion.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki called for Moscow instead to find and prosecute those behind his death.
“We are disappointed by the unprecedented posthumous criminal conviction against Sergei Magnitsky,” Psaki told reporters. “The trial was a discredit to the efforts of those who continue to seek justice in his case.”
Magnitsky was convicted by the Moscow court along with his former boss, the US-born British citizen William Browder, the head of the Hermitage Capital investment fund who was sentenced in absentia to nine years in a prison colony.
‘Martin killed due to bad assumptions’
SANFORD: Trayvon Martin died because George Zimmerman wrongly assumed he was a criminal, prosecutors told a Florida jury yesterday in closing arguments in the neighborhood watch volunteer’s second-degree murder trial.
After prosecutors finish, defense lawyers are due on Friday to make their closing statements in the case, which has captivated and polarized much of the US public. The jury is expected to start deliberations today.
Bosnia buries 409 massacre victims
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Hercegovina: Bosnia buried 409 victims of the Srebrenica massacre yesterday, including a newborn baby, on the 18th anniversary of the worst slaughter in post-war Europe.
Over 15,000 people travelled to Potocari, near Srebrenica, to attend the mass funeral of victims whose remains were found in mass graves since last year and identified almost two decades after the 1995 killing.
A downpour of summer rain hit the memorial cemetery in the late afternoon where tearful mourners sat near rows of coffins draped in green cloth, while others laid flowers on freshly dug graves. Agencies
