WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is hitting more senior Georgian officials and others with sanctions for undermining the country’s democracy and violating basic human rights. The State and Treasury departments announced Monday that they had imposed asset freezes on two top Interior Ministry officials, a media executive and a media personality for “violently suppressing the exercise of the freedom of …
New Delhi: The United States imposed financial sanctions and visa bans on current and former government officials and entities from nine countries on Friday, reported AP. In an action marking the Human Rights Day, the US imposed sanctions on North Korea under the Biden administration and targeted the Myanmar military entities. Secretary of State Antony Blinken while announcing the measures …
The Biden administration announced sanctions and visa bans on Friday targeting Saudi Arabian citizens over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but stopped short of imposing sanctions on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself. Importantly, the decisions appear designed to preserve a working relationship with the crown prince, the kingdom's de facto leader, even though U.S. intelligence concluded that …
