REDRESS urges the UK Government to re-direct the £783,827 recovered from sanctioned Russian oligarch Petr Aven to support survivors of the conflict in Ukraine. Petr Aven has once been described as one of “Vladimir Putin’s closest oligarchs”, with an estimated fortune of £4.5 billion, including a luxury estate outside London. Read More
By Isabelle Terranova, REDRESS Legal Fellow READ THE QUARTELY UPDATE Since 23 January 2024, the UK Government has imposed 16 targeted sanction packages to oppose transnational repression and democratic interference on UK soil… Read More
By Natalia Kubesch, REDRESS Legal Officer In oral evidence presented to the Treasury Select Committee’s inquiry into the effectiveness of the UK’s financial sanctions on Russia, REDRESS reiterated the need to develop new laws to repurpose profits derived from human rights violations, prioritise survivors’ rights to… Read More
Read our January Quarterly Update By Natalia Kubesch (Legal Officer) and Isabelle Terranova (Legal Fellow) Since September 2023, the UK Government has imposed 12 sanction packages against human traffickers in Southeast Asia,… Read More
As the UK’s Magnitsky sanctions regime begins its third year, a cross-party group of MPs called on the UK Government to increase its use of sanctions to respond to egregious human rights abuses and corruption.
During a Westminster Hall debate today, a cross-party group of MPs has, for the first time, named several actors whom it said must be subjected to human rights sanctions. The MPs, led by Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP and Chris Bryant MP, co-chairs of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Magnitsky Sanctions, discussed the genocide of the Uyghurs in China; the state hostage-taking of individuals including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran; the kidnap and torture of the subject of the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina; and the violent military coup in Sudan.
The new All-Party Parliamentary Group on Magnitsky Sanctions will be co-chaired by MPs Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Bryant and is supported by REDRESS, the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign, the Free Nazanin Campaign and the World Uyghur Congress A new cross-party group of MPs and Peers, working to use targeted sanctions to… Read More