Trump accused of breaking law after refusing to report to Congress on Khashoggi's brutal killing
The White House on Friday signaled President Donald Trump will ignore a request from a bipartisan group of senators to investigate and report on Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's brutal killing.
Senators on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in October invoked the Global Magnitsky Act of 2016 in response to Khashoggi's killing, which gave the president 120 days to report back to Congress on his findings and how he plans to react.
The Global Magnitsky Act is an Obama-era law named for Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian accountant and whistleblower who died in a Russian prison after facing serious abuse. The law expanded on previous legislation, the Magnitsky Act, which imposed sanctions on Russians allegedly involved in serious human rights violations.
The law offers a path for the US to impose sanctions on people who've committed gross human rights violations outside of Russia. It also includes a requirement for the president to respond within 120 days to requests from the heads of a number of congressional committees with a report on whether a "foreign person" has committed human rights violations and if sanctions will be imposed.
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