Politics
U.K. to Name Russians Facing Visa Bans Under New Sanction Rules
- Raab to launch British version of Magintsky Act in Parliament
- Will also blacklist Saudis, N. Koreans over human rights abuse
A tombstone on the grave of Sergei Magnitsky in Moscow.
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U.K. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will name the first foreign citizens from Russia, Saudi Arabia and North Korea to face sanctions for alleged human rights abuses, as he sets out the British version of the U.S. Magnitsky Act in Parliament on Monday.
Raab’s sanctions will involve visa bans and assets freezes and are expected to target Saudi citizens suspected of involvement in the killing of the columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. The Magnitsky Act is named for Sergei Magnitsky, the Russian lawyer who died in a Moscow jail in 2009 after alleging officials were involved in tax fraud.