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MOSCOW — A human- rights panel that advises Russian President Dmitry Medve dev on Wednesday published a damning report on the case of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, arguing that highly placed investigators and prison officials share responsibility for his death in custody.
Among the surprises in the report is the assertion that Magnitsky’s death may have been brought about by a beating at the hands of a team of orderlies at a clinic where he was transported after suffering from abdominal pain and vomiting. Government investigators have attributed his death to heart disease.
