Motion for Sanctions Against Human Rights Abusers Introduced in German Parliament
Germany's Freie Demokraten Party introduced a motion in the Bundestag to impose sanctions on human rights abusers, the EU Sanctions blog reported Sept. 9. The sanctions would be modeled after the Global Magnitsky Sanctions and would target those responsible for…
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“political murders, torture and mistreatment,” the party said Sept. 9, according to an unofficial translation of a press release. The FDP said it wants to create a sanctions regime that can target individual human rights abusers instead of a whole country or “entire society,” which could “worsen the human rights situation.”