Supreme Federal Court (STF) Minister Alexandre de Moraes became the newest name on the magnitsky law list, a United States legislation that allows Washington to apply sanctions against accused of human rights violations and corruption worldwide.
According to data from the US Foreign Asset Control Agency Platform of Sanctions (OFAC), there are 749 names on the list, between people and entities.
Among those included in the list are from Russian judges accused of collaborating for the arrest and death of activists to Uganda magistrates who participated in a fraudulent adoption scheme. Check out some highlights of the United States based on magnitsky law:
Accused of killing journalist
In November 2018, the US Treasury Department applied sanctions against 17 Saudi Arabia citizens accused of participation in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Among the sanctioned was Saud Al-Qahtani, advisor to the heir prince and Saudi Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman.
Khashoggi was a critical journalist for the kingdom of Riyadh and in October 2018 he was killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. After being strangled, his body was dismembered and dissolved in acid, according to Turkish authorities.
Associated with Hezbollah
In November 2020, the United States imposed sanctions on Leban’s former Foreign Minister Gebran Libanian parliamentarian Gebran Bassil via Magnitsky Law.
Although he was accused of corruption, the general perception was that the politician was sanctioned due to the association of his party, the free patriotic movement, the terrorist group Hezbollah. Last year alone Bassil stated that his caption was no longer allied to the Shiite group.
Ortega allies
In 2018, Nicaragua dictator Daniel Ortega repressed protests that began motivated by social security changes, but later asked for democracy.
In July of that year, the US Treasury Department applied sanctions against Nicaragua National Police Commissioner Francisco Javier Diaz Madriz, and Managua City Hall Secretary Fidel Antonio Moreno Briones for “serious human rights violations” in response to protests.
Involved in corruption
Horacio Cartes, former president of Paraguay, and Hugo Velázquez, then vice president of the South American country, suffered sanctions from the United States in January 2023.
Based on Magnitsky Law, Biden management accused them of “involvement in unbridled corruption that undermines democratic institutions in Paraguay.”
Taliban
In the same year of card punishment in December, Washington applied sanctions based on magnitsky law against Taliban regime authorities in Afghanistan.
In a statement, the Treasury Department blamed Fariduddin Mahmood, a member of the so -called Taliban “cabinet” for decisions of closing educational centers and schools for women and girls after sixth grade.
Another sanctioned was Khalid Hanafi, minister for the spread of virtue and prevention of Afghanistan addiction, responsible for the relentless persecution of women in the country.
Accused of genocide
In July 2020, the first Donald Trump management imposed sanctions against four China employees and former server due to the repression of the Uigures (a Muslim minority from the Xinjiang region), a violence that would be classified as genocide by the United States the following year.
Among the targets of the measure were Chen Quanguo, former secretary of the Communist Party in the region (in practice, the local ruler), and Zhu Hailun, former local deputy secretary of the party.
