Top senators call for 'immediate review' of decision to bar anti-Putin activist Bill Browder from th

Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin released a joint statement on Monday calling on the Department of Homeland Security to "expedite an immediate review" of the decision to bar the banker-turned-human rights activist Bill Browder from the United States.

“William Browder is strong advocate for anti-corruption efforts around the world and we relied on his expertise and support as we led the effort to pass the Magnitsky Act," the senators wrote, referring to legislation spearheaded by Browder in 2012 that punished high-level Russian officials suspected of being involved in the death of his tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.

Magnitsky was jailed by some of the same Russian officials he had accused of corruption, Browder has said, and was beaten to death by prison guards after failing to receive medical treatment for pancreatitis and other serious ailments.

Russia has claimed Magnitsky died of natural causes and, in a new twist, is now accusing Browder of colluding with a British spy in 2009 “to cause the death of S. L. Magnitsky by persuading Russian prison doctors to withhold care," according to The New York Times.

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