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IDENTIFY OFFICIALS TO BE LISTED UNDER THE MAGISNSKY ACT (AND SIMILAR ACTS ACROSS THE WORLD)

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For those who do not know what the Maginsky act is, it was a bi-partisan signed user the Obama administration "to sanction those who it sees as human rights offenders, freeze their assets, and ban them from entering the U.S". The great news is that the UK has also recently signed such an act and I believe the EU law has laws that can broadly cover this scenario. This is a brilliant tool which we should use aggressively, especially as many of our officials and assorted "big men" certainly fall under the categories of people for which this act was created. For instance, the Nigerian Navy recently unjustly, violently and without due legal process took over prime land that has been occupied by a Lagos community for several generations. They destroyed their homes and properties and frog-marched them off the land at gun-point. Many of these people have nowhere to go, no property and no money to live off! Several of those in the Navy who carried out this act will fall under the Maginsky act criteria. Some of these people often travel abroad, send their children to schools abroad, have assets (probably embezzled) abroad etc etc. Why don't we use tools like this at our disposal, more often????

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act

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