Moscow vows to retaliate against UK sanctions over alleged rights abuse in Chechnya ANI | Updated: Dec 12, 2020 16:31 IST
Moscow [Russia], December 12 (ANI/Sputnik): Moscow views the sanctions imposed by London against Russian individuals for alleged human rights violations in Russia s Chechen Republic as groundless and reserves the right to retaliate, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday.
The sanctions imposed by the United Kingdom against Russia on Thursday concern three senior Chechen officials and the Terek Special Rapid Response Unit. We were perplexed by the decision announced by the UK government on December 10 to impose national sanctions against three Russian citizens and a Russian National Guard unit due to alleged human rights violations in the Chechen Republic, Zakharova said in a statement.
Moscow vows to retaliate against UK sanctions over rights abuse in Chechnya
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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.