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...month later, Magnitsky, 37, was dead. The Interior Ministry, which had charged the lawyer with conspiring to help William Browder, head of the London-based investment firm Hermitage Capital, allegedly evade more than $3 million in taxes, said it had not been aware that he had been ill. In prison notes released by his attorneys, however, Magnitsky repeatedly complained about being refused treatment for pancreatitis, a condition his friends and colleagues say led to his death...
...down his home-state party on climate change and the need for civility in politics. He also showed creativity in his efforts to come up with a legal code for terrorist detainees, and personal courage by spending his annual three-week Air National Guard stint in Afghanistan, studying the prison at Bagram. Usually, journalists don't qualify for Teddy Awards, since they tend to be critics rather than denizens of the arena, but the conservative columnist David Frum - a Bush Administration speechwriter, who coined the phrase "axis of evil" - honored his intellectual principles by standing up against the radical excesses...
...June, I met a gentle and courageous man who lost an election but won a nation - Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The Teddy goes not just to him, but to the legions of patriotic Iranians I met in the streets - and especially to those in prison now, like Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who was forced to "confess" to "crimes" he didn't commit in a ridiculous show trial. The Iranian people, unfailingly gracious to this foreigner, deserve a far better government than the one they have...
...former Soviet Union. Suspected smugglers like Russian Viktor Bout have used the system to transport weapons, as have huge U.S. military contractors like Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), though not for illegal purposes. And while the flight crews like the one stopped in Thailand face the prospect of long prison terms, the people behind this global arms-shipping service remain hidden in the shadows...
...dubbed the "Merchant of Death" by Russian media. Last year, Bout was arrested in Bangkok after allegedly offering to sell weapons to U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency officers posing as members of the Colombian rebel group FARC. While the U.S. seeks his extradition, Bout is being held at Klong Prem prison in Thailand, the same place where Petukhov and his crew are now jailed. (See the top 10 underreported stories...