Yahya Jammeh
Britain on Thursday slapped sanctions on The Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh as it widened travel bans and economic sanctions for human rights abuses worldwide.
The former dictator, whose election defeat to Adama Barrow in December 2016 forced him to flee, was one of three from the West African nation on an updated list targeting 10 people across the globe.
Jammeh, his wife Zineb, and the former director general of the country’s National Intelligence Agency Yankuba Badjie, are all now subject to asset freezes and a UK travel ban.
London said Jammeh was behind “inciting, promoting, ordering and being directly involved in extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, kidnappings, torture, rape, as well as wider human rights violations” after he seized power in a coup in 1994.
Published 10 December 2020
Britain on Thursday slapped sanctions on The Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh as it widened travel bans and economic sanctions for human rights abuses worldwide.
The former dictator, whose election defeat to Adama Barrow in December 2016 forced him to flee, was one of three from the West African nation on an updated list targeting 10 people across the globe.
Jammeh, his wife Zineb, and the former director-general of the country’s National Intelligence Agency Yankuba Badjie, are all now subject to asset freezes and a UK travel ban.
London said Jammeh was behind “inciting, promoting, ordering and being directly involved in extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, kidnappings, torture, rape, as well as wider human rights violations” after he seized power in a coup in 1994.
Ex-Karachi cop among 11 sanctioned by UK
The latest additions raise the number to 65 people on the UK sanctions list, along with three organisations
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December 11, 2020
LONDON:
Britain said on Thursday it was imposing sanctions on 11 individuals, including a former Karachi police “encounter specialist” Anwar Ahmed Khan, as it widened travel bans and economic sanctions for human rights abuses worldwide in a coordinated move with the United States.
The latest additions raise the number to 65 people on the UK sanctions list, along with three organisations. In Pakistan, Anwar Ahmed Khan is suspected of being behind more than 190 “hits” that led to more than 400 deaths, it was stated.