Copenhagen, Denmark – The leader of the main Norwegian opposition group is opposing a boycott of Israel decided by the Norway’s largest trade union confederation, a traditional ally.
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Jonas Gahr Store, who leads the left-leaning Labor Party, says the move by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) says would not bring progress on a political solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
The LO confederation on Friday endorsed a full boycott of Israel to achieve Palestinian human rights.
LO, with more than 900,000 workers affiliated, has supported Labor, Norway’s largest party, for decades. In 2013, the social-democratic party lost power to the current right-leaning coalition government.
After accusing Russian officials of the $230 million tax fraud, he was arrested on tax evasion charges and died in prison a year later, prosecutors said.
The Kremlin’s human rights council found that Magnitsky likely died from a beating delivered by guards and medical neglect. Russian authorities have said Magnitsky death was caused by heart failure, not foul play.
In 2012, at the urging of Magnitsky’s former employer, Hermitage Capital CEO William Browder, Washington passed a law freezing any U.S. assets of Russian investigators and prosecutors said to have been involved in the accountant’s detention. In retaliation, Moscow barred Americans from adopting Russian children
In the settlement agreement, prosecutors stated that none of the defendants had a role in the death of Magnitsky.
Katsyv’s attorney Gay said the current controversy over allegations of Russian meddling in U.S. elections had likely motivated both sides to settle before trial. “It’s such a heated political environment right now,” she said. “I’m sure that was a factor.”