Senator Benjamin L. Cardin, Democrat of Maryland, asked the State Department on Monday to deny visas to 60 Russian officials who he said were involved in prosecuting and detaining Sergei L. Magnitsky, a 37-year-old lawyer who died in a Moscow jail after having requested medical care. Mr. Magnitsky was held in a tax evasion case against the Hermitage Fund, whose American-born owner had clashed bitterly with Russian officials.
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