If you're the henchman of a dictator, a gangster or a murderer, then Monday was a bad day.

A new law made it possible for Britain to ban people from the country for human rights abuses,

to freeze their assets, and to stop blood money seeping through the system.

They said, you found the Achilles heel of the Putin regime,

and you possibly sanction the people who killed my father.

We speak to the man who spent the last decade

campaigning for this new law after his friend was killed in a Russian

prison.

I made a vow on the day that he was murdered that I was going to put aside everything else I was doing and devote all of my time, all of my resources, and all of my energies to go after the people who killed him and make sure they face justice.

You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times.

I'm Manveen Rana.

Today, Bill Browder versus Vladimir Putin and how Britain adopted the Magnitsky

Act. This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber.

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Mr. Speaker, these sanctions are a forensic tool.

They allow us to target perpetrators without punishing the wider people of a country that may be affected.

The regulations will enable us to impose travel bans and asset freezes against those involved in serious human rights violations.

On Monday of this week I was sitting in Dominic Rab, the Foreign Secretary's large office at the Foreign Commonwealth

office with Natalia Magnitsky, the widow of my lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and Akita, their son.

And we're imposing sanctions on individuals involved in some of the most notorious

human rights violations in recent years.

We sat in the office and human rights violations in recent years.

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