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Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) Despite overwhelming evidence, no perpetrators have faced sanctions under the UK’s new Magnitsky Act-style - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) It should apply targeted Magnitsky sanctions against those who can be identified as active or complicit - Speech Link
3: Anna McMorrin (Lab - Cardiff North) First, are the UK Government willing to consider human rights sanctions against those deemed responsible - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) The first was about human rights sanctions, and as I think she inferred, we certainly keep such matters - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Zimbabwe: Sanctions - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) human rights and corruption sanctions regimes? - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) sanctions, not just in countries such as Zimbabwe but across the world. - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, I welcome what the Minister says about targeted sanctions. - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Secondly, will he look again at the opaque way in which Magnitsky sanctions are imposed? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Stroud (Con - Life peer) Iran’s economy has grown faster than western counterparts despite US sanctions. Why? - Speech Link
2: Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate (Non-affiliated - Life peer) himself is a target of Putin for campaigning for justice in the case of his Russian solicitor, Sergei Magnitsky - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) divestment campaigns against foreign countries and territories that are inconsistent with the legal sanctions - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) We do not support boycott, divestment and sanctions campaigns towards Israel—they wrongly single out - Speech Link
3: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) , embargoes or restrictions, there should be no scope for a regime of trade sanctions or embargoes to - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 introduced a very tough sanctions regime in the Magnitsky - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Death of Alexei Navalny - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) invasion of Ukraine, so will he strengthen not just our sanctions regime but how those sanctions are - Speech Link
2: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We do have a laser-like focus on the economic impact of our sanctions in the round. - Speech Link
3: Alyn Smith (SNP - Stirling) assure us that the UK will be part of those efforts, in particular with regard to the implementation of Magnitsky - Speech Link
4: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) Friend the Member for Stirling (Alyn Smith) mentioned Magnitsky sanctions, and we need to act now. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Death of Alexei Navalny - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) The global human rights sanctions regime allows immediate and rapid designation. - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) our trade sanctions. - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) for his very clear support.What has happened to Alexei Navalny is the same as what happened to Sergei Magnitsky - Speech Link
4: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (XB - Life peer) We recall this list of names: Sergei Magnitsky, Boris Nemtsov, and now Alexei Navalny. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Religious Persecution and the World Watch List - Thu 25 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) It is good that we have been imposing sanctions following the Magnitsky laws, but we need to be more - Speech Link
2: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) The issue is far wider than sanctions and support for democracy. - Speech Link
3: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) I want to respond to her and to the House to say that we use our global human rights sanctions regime - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) We have imposed sanctions on Russia and China to address their abuses of human rights, and our Government - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) They have given themselves powers to impose Magnitsky sanctions on individuals who commit gross human - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) Although I know that the Government will not comment on ongoing sanctions work, I would like an assurance - Speech Link
4: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) mandate of the special rapporteurs on Russia and on Afghanistan.We have also made important strides on sanctions - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights in Hong Kong - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Browder, the human rights campaigner, with whom we are all familiar as the pioneer of the introduction of Magnitsky - Speech Link
2: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) Bill Browder himself has called for Magnitsky-style sanctions on him. Is this not the time? - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Thirdly, the UK Government should implement Magnitsky-style targeted sanctions on Hong Kong Chief Executive - Speech Link
4: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) In that debate two years ago, I and every other speaker raised the issue of the Magnitsky sanctions, - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Rules-based International Order - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) everyone, and we hold to account those who undermine it, including through steadfast support to Ukraine, sanctions - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Why have the Government not yet done anything to use Magnitsky sanctions against any of those who have - Speech Link