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The US Treasury Department has stepped up its efforts to punish human rights violations against Kadyrov, who, along with his family, was added to the sanctions list in December 2017 and July this year.
In new criminal measures under the US Magnitsky Act, the department said Kadyrov was in charge of Kadyrovt, an organization that Washington said was a serious human rights violator.
“Kadyrov and his forces, commonly known as ‘kadyrovcis,’ have contributed to the assassination of Boris Nemtsov, a politician who opposed Russian President Vladimir Putin, and other serious human rights abuses,” the document says.
The department has extended sanctions that freeze U.S.-regulated assets to isolate the entity from the global financial and trading system: These measures will now be extended to six Russian companies and five people in Kadyrov’s network.
Five Yemeni Hussite rebel security officers were also blacklisted, including Sultan Zabin, director of Sana’a’s Criminal Investigation Department.
“The country’s various Hussite-controlled intelligence and security agencies have committed serious human rights abuses through widespread practices of arbitrary detention and torture of their citizens,” the Treasury Department said.
In addition, sanctions were imposed on three Haitians, a gang leader and two government officials accused of carrying out an attack in the poor neighborhood of Port-au-Prince in November 2018, which claimed 71 lives.
“In commemorating International Human Rights Day, the United States expresses its support for innocent civilians around the world who have experienced violence and oppression,” said Under Secretary of the Treasury Justin Muzinich.
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