The UK government has placed strict sanctions on three top officials from Chechnya, Russia, who were charged with torturing LGBTQ+ people in the region’s infamous crackdown on the queer community. Magomed Daudov, spokesperson of the Chechen parliament, Aiub Kataev, head of the ministry of internal affairs, and Apti Alaudinov, deputy minister and major general of the police, will all be subjected to travel bans under the new sanctions, as well as asset freezes.
A total of eleven politicians and officials, situated in Russia, Venezuela, Gambia and Pakistan, were penalised by UK authorities on International Human Rights Day (December 10) for “gross human rights violations”.