Three Haitian blacklisted by US for human rights violation

The United States has denounced suspected human rights abuses in Russia, Yemen and Haiti. The list includes Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and five people connected to Yemen’s Houthi-controlled security and intelligence agencies.

It imposed sanctions on three people in Haiti - Jimmy Cherizier, Fednel Monchery and Joseph Pierre Richard Duplan - for suspected association in a November 2018 attack in the neighbourhood of La Saline in which killed over 71 innocent people and over 400 houses were completely destroyed while seven women were also reportedly raped by armed gangs.

Most of these people were blacklisted under Executive Order 13818, which fulfils the U.S. Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act, halting any assets under U.S. control and warning non-U.S. actors with excluding for trading with them.

The U.S. Treasury announced in a declaration that in addition to Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Muslim-majority Chechnya area, it had allowed six companies enrolled in Russia, as well as five people, all of which have friendly ties to him.

The Treasury named the six organizations as Akhmat MMA, FC Akhmat Grozny, Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, Absolute Championship Akhmat, Megastroyinvest and Chechen Mineral Waters Ltd.

It called the five individuals as Vakhit Usmayev, the deputy prime minister of Chechnya, as well as Timur Dugazaev, Ziyad Sabsabi, Daniil Vasilievich Martynov, and Satish Seemar.

Kadyrov announced the penalties would not influence Chechnya, stating that he was neither shocked nor scared by the sentences.

“America has started fighting with sports, with wives, children, horses, athletes, charity organizations. There has not been anything more ridiculous in the history of humanity,” Kadyrov stated on his telegram channel.

The Russian currency ruble has mainly overlooked the new targeted limitations, scoring 73 against the dollar, its biggest since August.

The Treasury said it was also denouncing five people tied to Houthi-controlled security agencies in Yemen whom it blamed of serious human abuses: Sultan Zabin, Abdul Hakim al-Khaiwani, Abdul Rahab Jarfan, Motlaq Amer al-Marrani and Qader al-Shami.