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The United States on Tuesday sanctioned 12 Russians for human rights abuses, including officials who allegedly withheld medical care from a lawyer who died in prison after exposing large-scale corruption in Russia. The U.S. Treasury Department, which announced the action, did not link it with the confrontation between Washington and Moscow over the Ukraine crisis, which has led the United States to target a number of senior Russian officials with sanctions. The Treasury said in a statement Tuesday's sanctions would freeze any U.S. assets held by the 12 individuals and bar Americans from doing business with them. Since 2012, the United States has targeted Russians for human rights abuses under a law named for Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who allegedly uncovered tax fraud that involved Russian officials.
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