Russia has just been very severely criticised by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case of 'Serguei Magnitskiy', named after the tax lawyer imprisoned in 2008, who died in custody the following year at the age of 37.
In a unanimous decision handed down on Tuesday by the judges, the Court concluded that there were several serious violations of the European Convention on Human Rights: ill-treatment (handcuffing and beating with a flexible baton a few hours before death), lack of...