The Trump Administration quietly issued an Executive Order (EO) last Thursday which allows for the freezing of US-housed assets belonging to foreign individuals or entities deemed “serious human rights abusers,” along with government officials and executives of foreign corporations (current or former) found to have engaged in corruption – which includes the misappropriation of state […]
New Trump Executive Order Targets Clinton-Linked Individuals, Lobbyists and Perhaps Uranium One…
U.S. Sanctions Top Burmese General, 51 Others for Human Rights Abuses…
American Bank Freezes $22B Owned by Kazakhstan…
Issuance of Global Magnitsky Executive Order; Global Magnitsky Designations…
United States Sanctions Human Rights Abusers and Corrupt Actors Across the Globe…
Leaked UN Report: Saudi Coalition Responsible for Mass Child Deaths in Yemen…
A leaked United Nations report finds that Saudi Arabia has massacred thousands of children in Yemen since the start of its air campaign in the impoverished country and now the Saudis are using their vast wealth and influence to suppress the document’s findings in order to stay off of a UN blacklist identifying nations which […]
Turkey Arrests Amnesty International Director and Activists…
Turkish police rounded up eight leading human rights campaigners, including the head of rights group Amnesty International in Turkey, Idil Eser, at a meeting on an island near Istanbul, media said on Thursday. They had gathered at a hotel on Buyukada Island, just south of Turkey’s largest city, when they were taken to a police […]
German NGO Seeks Arrest Warrant for Trump’s Deputy CIA Director…
The Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) has called on German federal prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant against Gina Haspel, the deputy director of the CIA, who was appointed on February 2. The ECCHR first pressed charges against unknown CIA operatives in December 2014, after the US Senate Select Committee published […]
EU Seeks Assurances from Trump Administration over Data Privacy Agreement…
The European Union’s commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Vera Jourova, has flown to Washington to seek urgent assurances over the Privacy Shield agreement, adopted July 2016 between the EU and the US to ensure EU citizens’ data on US servers was secure from surveillance. Privacy Shield is the deal between the EU and […]
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