Canada imposed sanctions on November 3 against 30 Russian officials that it said were complicit in the 2009 prison death of Sergei Magnitsky, an anti-corruption lawyer who was jailed after alleging a massive tax fraud.
The measures – which freeze the assets of the officials and bar them from visiting Canada – were enacted through a new law giving the government the right to target those it says are guilty of human rights violations, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
