US: Senate Approves Magnitsky Bill The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee has unanimously approved a bill to impose financial and visa sanctions on foreign officials connected to human rights abuse. The bill is named after Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian anti-graft lawyer who was allegedly tortured to death in prison in 2009. Earlier this month the USHouse of Representatives CommitteeofForeign Affairs approved a version of the “SergeiMagnitskyRule of Law Accountability Act” which imposed sanctions only on Russian officials connected to human rights abuses. The Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee revised the bill Tuesday to extend the rule to all foreign officials connected to human rights abuses.