Canada imposes new sanctions on Russia, Iran and Myanmar | 24CA News

Canada on Friday imposed recent sanctions on Russia, Iran and Myanmar, citing alleged human rights violations by their governments.

The measures included sanctions in opposition to 33 present or former senior Russian officers and 6 entities concerned in alleged “systematic human rights violations” in opposition to Russian residents who protested the nation’s invasion of Ukraine, the Canadian international ministry mentioned in an announcement.

Since Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24, Canada has imposed sanctions on greater than 1,500 people and entities from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Sanctions have been additionally imposed on 22 people in Iran, together with senior members of the judiciary, jail system and legislation enforcement, in addition to political leaders, akin to senior aides to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and figures in state-directed media retailers, the assertion added.

Sanctions on Iran got here a day after Iran hanged a person convicted of injuring a safety guard with a knife and blocking a road in Tehran, in keeping with the semi-official Tasnim news company, the primary such execution over current anti-government unrest.

Nationwide protests erupted after the dying of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian lady Mahsa Amini in police custody on Sept. 16.

“There is more work to be done, but Canada will never stop standing up for human rights,” Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly mentioned.

In addition to Iran and Russia, Canada additionally imposed sanctions on 12 people and three entities in Myanmar that carry out key capabilities on behalf of the nation’s army, facilitate arms flows to the army and allow the army’s violence, Canada mentioned.

The army seized energy in a coup in Myanmar final yr. Rights activists say the junta is now recurrently utilizing the dying penalty as a “political tool.”

More than 16,500 folks have been arrested and greater than 13,000 of them stay in detention for the reason that coup, in keeping with a human rights group that paperwork violations by the Myanmar army.