The United States on Thursday blacklisted alleged human rights abusers in Russia, Yemen and Haiti, including Ramzan Kadyrov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and five people linked to Yemen's Houthi-controlled security and intelligence agencies.
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Most were blacklisted under Executive Order 13818, which implements the US Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, freezing any assets under US jurisdiction and threatening non-US actors with blacklisting for dealing with them.
The US Treasury said in a statement that in addition to Kadyrov, the head of Russia's Muslim-majority Chechnya region, it had sanctioned six companies registered in Russia, as well as five individuals, all of which have close ties to him.
