18/03/2014 (Agence Europe) - Setting up a Magnitsky list. On 18 March, MEPs from the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee called on the Council for a visa ban and assets freeze in the EU of 32 Russian officials suspected of being responsible for the torture and death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in custody in 2009, and for the harassment of his mother and widow, or involved in Magnitsky's posthumous trial. In the resolution by Kristiina Ojuland (ALDE, Estonia),...