The United States decided to blacklist Libya’s Kaniyat militia and its leader after Russia blocked the United Nations Security Council’s proposed sanctions on the group for its human rights abuses.

The sanctions were imposed under the Global Magnitsky Act and allow the U.S. to freeze the assets of international human rights violators and prohibit Americans from doing business with them.

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