Although it is the first Brazilian to be included in the US Sanction List of the United States Based on Magnitsky Law, the Supreme Court (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes is not the only judge on the list.
Since it came into force at the end of 2012, the law aimed at accused of violating human rights and corruption has served as the basis for Washington measures against magistrates from other countries.
Three of them were sanctioned in Russia due to the death of lawyer Sergei Magntsky, who named American law.
Magnitsky was arrested after denouncing corruption of Russian politicians and died in prison. In April 2013, Barack Obama management applied sanctions against 18 Russians for participation in the detention and death of the lawyer.
The list included Aleksey Krivoruchko, Sergei Podoprigorov and Yelena Stashina, Judges of the Tverskoy District Court in Moscow.
Another Russian judge, Yelena Lenskaya of the Basmanny District Court, also in Moscow, was the target of United States sanctions based on Magnitsky Law in March 2023 because he approved the request for arrest of activist Vladimir Kara-Murza.
The activist was accused by the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin of spreading false information about the Russian army – the accusation that Kremlin makes to anyone who questioning the war in Ukraine.
Lenskaya was also sanctioned by the United Kingdom government. Kara-Murza was released in August 2024 in a prisoner exchange agreement between Russia and West countries.
In August 2020, at the first Trump management, the United States applied sanctions against four people from Uganda based on magnitsky law.
Judges Moses Mukiibi and Wilson Mustu Musene were among the punished.
According to the statement issued at the time by the Treasury Department, the sanctioned participated in a scheme in which young children were taken from Ugandan families under promises to be sent to “special education” and studies in the United States, but were later offered to American families for adoption.
