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SunStar Editorial Cartoon by John Gilbert Manantan + December 14, 2020 Twenty-seven European Union member nations agreed on a law that will give the bloc a way to punish human rights violators all over the world. It is its answer to the United States’ Magnitsky Act. Yes, the very law that paved the way for the cancellation of Sen. Bato dela Rosa’s US visa on the grounds that the former chief of the national police played top role in a number of extrajudicial killings. Formally known by a longer name, the Magnitsky Act was a bipartisan bill passed by the US Congress and signed into law by then President Barack Obama in 2012. It was meant to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of whistleblower and Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in a Moscow prison in 2009. The bill, which applies globally, has since 2016 authorized the US government to sanction those it deems as human rights offenders, freeze their assets and ban them entry into US territory.

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