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Rights groups target police, spy chiefs globally under new U.S. law
Topic Started: Sep 14 2017, 06:03 AM (45 Views)
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#WORLD NEWS SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 / 7:07 AM / UPDATED 20 HOURS AGO

Michael Kahn, Warren Strobel

PRAGUE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Police and spy chiefs from China to the Middle East, a Ukrainian oligarch and a former president of Panama are among the people a coalition of human rights groups wants targeted for sanctions under an expanded U.S. law aimed at curbing rights abuses and corruption worldwide.

The coalition, in documents to be made public on Wednesday, submitted 15 cases to the U.S. State Department and U.S. Treasury, urging them to investigate using the law, called the Global Magnitsky Act.

The law, which then-President Barack Obama signed in December 2016, expands the scope of 2012 legislation that froze the assets of Russian officials and banned them from traveling to the United States because of their links to the 2009 death in prison of a whistleblower, Sergey Magnitsky.
Reuters
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