Magnitsky refused to break despite the squalid conditions he was kept in, but was beaten to death after he fell ill
[From book exerpt]
The riches of the former Soviet Union seemed an incredible opportunity for financiers such as Bill Browder, and so it proved when he moved to the ‘Wild East’ and found he needed bodyguards and armoured cars.
But it was when he crossed the henchmen of Russian president Vladimir Putin that the trouble really started, and Browder was thrown into a terrifying world of state-sanctioned criminality. He survived, but his loyal colleague, Sergei Magnitsky, was to suffer an horrific fate at the hands of the Kremlin’s goons, as Browder recalls in this gripping first extract of his extraordinary new book...
Eight guards, believed to be on orders from the Kremlin, viciously laid into Magnitsky with batons. More than an hour later, he was found dead
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2924752/Putin-s-torturers-hell-hole-Russian-jail-lawyer-frozen-chained-radiator-clubbed-death-crime-Blowing-whistle-government-cronies-stole-Russia-s-riches.html
Putin's torturers: In a hell-hole Russian jail, a top lawyer is frozen, chained to a radiator, then clubbed to death. His crime? Blowing the whistle on government cronies who stole Russia's riches
Tycoon Bill Browder crossed Putin's henchmen after moving to Russia
He escaped to London, but his colleague Sergei Magnitsky stayed behind
Magnitsky was arrested and held in hellish prisons on trumped-up charges
But he refused to break, eventually falling seriously ill in a squalid cell
Browder received a horrifying voicemail of his colleague being beaten
Magnitsky died after eight riot guards beat him to death with rubber batons
By Bill Browder For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 17:03 EST, 24 January 2015 | Updated: 06:11 EST, 25 January 2015
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/putins-way/
Putin's Way
PBS
January 15, 2015
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