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29th Mar 2024

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Magnitsky's lawyer injured near Moscow

Nikolai Gorokhov, lawyer for the family of Sergei Magnitsky, has been badly injured. Magnitsky was a lawyer whose 2009 death in custody triggered a crisis between Russia and the West. Russian media said Gorokhov fell from the fourth floor as he and others tried to lift a bath into his house near Moscow, BBC reported. But British businessman Bill Browder, for whom Magnitsky worked, alleged that he had been "thrown".

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