Dima Yakovlev Law

Dima Yakovlev Law
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  • On Sanctions for Individuals Violating Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms of the Citizens of the Russian Federation
Citation272-ФЗ
Territorial extentRussian Federation
Signed byPresident Vladimir Putin
Signed28 December 2012
Effective1 January 2013
Legislative history
Introduced29 December 2012
First reading21 December 2012 (State Duma)
Second reading27 December 2012 (Federation Council)
Status: In force

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Federal Law of 28 December 2012 No.272-FZ "On Sanctions for Individuals Violating Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms of the Citizens of the Russian Federation",[1][2] popularly known as the Dima Yakovlev Law (Russian: Закон Димы Яковлева),[3][a] is a law in Russia that defines sanctions against U.S. citizens involved in "violations of the human rights and freedoms of Russian citizens". It creates a list of citizens who are banned from entering Russia, and also allows the government to freeze their assets and investments. The law suspends the activity of politically active non-profit organisations which receive money from American citizens or organisations.[2] It also bans citizens of the United States from adopting children from Russia.[6]

The law was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 28 December 2012 and took effect on 1 January 2013.[citation needed] The law is informally named after a Russian orphan adopted by a family from Purcellville, Virginia, who died of heat stroke after being left in a parked car for nine hours.[3] The law is described as a response to the Magnitsky Act in the United States, which places sanctions on Russian officials who were involved in a tax scandal exposed by Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky; Magnitsky was alleged to have been handcuffed and tortured while in jail, supported by the official post-mortem expert opinion of the Russian Forensic Medical Examination Center of the Russian Ministry of Health.[7]

  1. ^ О мерах воздействия на лиц, причастных к нарушениям основополагающих прав и свобод человека, прав и свобод граждан Российской Федерации [On Sanctions for Individuals Violating Fundamental Human Rights and Freedoms of the Citizens of the Russian Federation] (Federal Law 272-FZ) (in Russian). State Duma. 28 December 2012. "Законодательство России. Поиск: Федеральный закон Дата принятия 28.12.2012 Номер начинается". Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ a b A law on sanctions for individuals violating fundamental human rights and freedoms of Russian citizens has been signed Archived 2013-01-02 at the Wayback Machine // Kremlin.ru, 28 December 2012.
  3. ^ a b Englund, Will (11 December 2012). "Russians say they'll name their Magnitsky-retaliation law after baby who died in a hot car in Va". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 12 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  4. ^ "Putin signs "anti-Magnitsky law" - Interfax". www.interfax.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  5. ^ ""Закон подлецов" в действии". Novaya Gazeta (in Russian). 1 June 2020. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  6. ^ CNN Wire Staff (28 December 2012). "Russia's Putin signs anti-U.S. adoption bill". CNN. Archived from the original on 3 October 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2012. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  7. ^ http://russian-untouchables.com/docs/Nekrasov%20Lies%20Presentaion%20June%20(ENG)%20NEW%20JUNE%202016%20v%202.pdf%7Cquote="The injuries which S.L. Magnitsky had were caused resultantly from the traumatic application of the blunt hard object (objects) which is confirmed by the closed type of the trauma and their morphological manifestations in the form of the abrasions, ecchymomas, blood effusions into the soft tissues"


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