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• UK, US and Canada lead coordinated action against human rights abusers and accessories to authoritarian governments around the world, 75 years after Universal Declaration of Human Rights was ratified聽
• UK targets forced labour operations in Southeast Asia, and government-linked officials in Belarus, Haiti, Iran, and Syria complicit in repressing individual freedoms
• these sanctions underline the UK鈥檚 continued commitment to deterring malign activity around the world

The UK, US and Canada are today announcing a sweeping package of sanctions targeting individuals linked to human rights abuses around the world, ahead of the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December.听

Today the UK is announcing聽46 sanctions, including asset freezes and travel bans, in 2 categories.听

The first set targets 9 individuals and 5 entities for their involvement in trafficking people in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar, forcing them to work for online 鈥榮cam farms鈥� which enable large-scale fraud. Victims are promised well-paid jobs but are subject to torture or other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. The UN estimates at least 120,000 people in Myanmar alone are being forced to work for such schemes. The FCDO has helped a small number of British nationals return to the UK who had become victims.听

The second is aimed at a number of individuals linked to the governments, judiciaries and prosecuting authorities of Belarus, Haiti, Iran, and Syria, for their involvement in the repression of citizens solely for exercising fundamental freedoms in those countries. This includes:聽

• 17 members of the Belarusian judiciary including judges, prosecutors and an investigator involved in politically-motivated cases against political activists, independent journalists and human rights defenders
• 5 individuals in the Iranian judiciary, security forces and Tehran public transport system for their involvement in imposing and enforcing the mandatory hijab law聽
• 8 individuals for complicity in atrocities against the Syrian people by Assad鈥檚 regime and聽
• 2 individuals in Haiti for their involvement in the 2018 La Saline attacks

The Foreign Secretary, David Cameron, said: 聽

We will not tolerate criminals and repressive regimes trampling on the fundamental rights and freedoms of ordinary people around the world.听

I am clear that 75 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UK and our allies will continue to relentlessly pursue those who would deny people their freedom.

The Home Secretary James Cleverly said:

The UK is actively rooting out all facilitators of large-scale fraud, both nationally and internationally, to protect public welfare.

Today鈥檚 announcement sends a clear warning: anyone attempting to gain from human rights abuses will be brought to justice.

Background

US and Canada

More information on the US and Canadian designations will follow later today from the and and .

Asset freeze

An asset freeze prevents any UK citizen, or any business in the UK, from dealing with any funds or economic resources which are owned, held or controlled by the designated person. It also prevents funds or economic resources being provided to or for the benefit of the designated person. UK financial sanctions apply to all persons within the territory and territorial sea of the UK and to all UK persons, wherever they are in the world.听聽

Travel ban

A travel ban means that the designated person must be refused leave to enter or to remain in the United Kingdom, providing the individual is an excluded person under section 8B of the Immigration Act 1971.

Further information on the individuals and entities sanctioned by the UK today聽

Forced labour in Southeast Asia聽

Fourteen individuals and entities have been sanctioned for their links to forced labour schemes in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar. The victims were .听

• Zhao Wei
• Su Guiqin
• Nat Rungtawankhiri 聽
• Abbas Eberahim聽
• Zhijiang She 聽
• Colonel Saw Chit Thu 聽
• Colonel Saw Min Min Oo聽
• ZhengHeng Group Co Ltd聽
• Heng He Casino聽
• K.B Hotel聽 聽
• Pacific Real Estate Management Co.听
• Hum Sovanny 聽
• Dong Lecheng聽
• Golden Sun Sky Entertainment Co., Ltd. 聽

Repression of civilians in Belarus, Haiti, Iran and Syria聽

Belarus:

The following 17 individuals have been sanctioned, including judges, prosecutors and an investigator involved in politically-motivated cases against political activists, independent journalists and human rights defenders, including Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski:

• Petr Aleksandrovich Orlov聽
• Sergei Aleksandrovich Epikhov 聽
• Vyacheslav Ivanovich聽 Tuleyko 聽
• Valentina Nikolaevna Zenkevich 聽
• Svetlana Aleksandrovna Bondarenko 聽
• Roman Ivanovich Bizyuk 聽
• Aleksandr Vladimirovich Karol聽
• Sergey Fedorovich Khripach聽
• Anton Vladimirovich Kolyago 聽
• Marina Sviatoslavovna Zapasnik聽
• Mikhail Kavaliou聽
• Valentina Gennadevna Kulik聽 聽
• Igor Viacheslavovich Liubovitski聽
• Mikhail lvanovich Dola聽
• Tatyana Alexandrovna Grakun聽
• Sergei Sergeevich Girgel聽 聽
• Denis Alexandrovich Mikushev聽 聽

Iran:

The following 5 individuals in the Iranian judiciary, security forces and Tehran Metro have been sanctioned for their involvement in imposing and enforcing the mandatory hijab law:

• Hassan Shahrestani 聽
• Ali Salehi 聽
• Alireza Adyani 聽
• Ali Akbar Javidan 聽
• Masoud Dorosti 聽

Syria:

The following 8 Syrian regime individuals have been sanctioned for their involvement in atrocities committed against the Syrian people. This includes government ministers and senior members of the armed forces involved in Military Field Courts:聽

• Major Mohammad Kanjou 聽
• Major General Yazan Al-Homsi聽
• Boutros al Hallaq 聽
• Louai Emad El-Din al-Munajjid 聽
• Firas Hassan Qaddour 聽
• Mohsen Abdul Karim Ali 聽
• Abdel Qader Jokhadar聽
• Ahmed Mohammad Bustaji聽

Haiti:

The following 2 individuals in Haiti have been sanctioned for their involvement in the 2018 La Saline attacks, in which over 70 protestors were killed by armed criminal gangs with support from government officials:

• Fednel Monchery聽
• Joseph Pierre Richard Duplan