'The View' co-host Meghan McCain receives human rights award on behalf of her late father, Senator

Описание: (16 Nov 2018) 'THE VIEW''S MEGHAN MCCAIN ACCEPTS AWARD ON BEHALF OF HER FATHER, LATE SENATOR
Meghan McCain missed co-hosting 'The View' on Thursday (15 NOV. 2018) because she was in London accepting a human rights award on behalf of her father, the late Senator John McCain.
The 2018 Human Rights award, presented on behalf of the global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, was given for John McCain "in recognition that his legacy will long continue to inspire all of those who are standing up for liberty and justice."
McCain died in August of brain cancer at the age of 81.
He was said to have been selected for the honour for his support for the 2012 Magnitsky Act, which imposed sanctions on Russia following the death of human rights lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.
"John McCain defended and vindicated the memory of ordinary men and women with integrity, like Sergei Magnitsky. Vadimir Putin has them murdered. John McCain was a strong man. Vladimir Putin is a weak man's idea of a strong man," Meghan McCain told those gathered at the award ceremony.
She said it was honor to accept the award and told guests that, "My only sorrow is that he is not here to receive it by himself. Every day without him is a day diminished by his absence and the diagnosis of his final illness. I used to count on the days I had left with him and now I count on the days until I can see him again. I trust that I will, and when I do he will be clothed in glory with every tear wiped away, and with him will be the people that he loved and served, the oppressed of the earth, the simple people who never lost faith in God and freedom despite the darkest dungeons, despite the cruellest tyrant."

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