UK’s first post-Brexit sanctions

Table of contents

• What are Magnitsky-style sanctions?
• Targeted sanctions
• Lack of co-ordination

Article summary

Public Law analysis: On 6 July 2020, the government announced the first new sanctions under the post-Brexit legislative framework. Nearly 50 individuals and organisations, ‘involved in some of the most notorious human rights violations and abuses in recent years’, were subjected to asset freezes and travel bans. Ben Smith, researcher at the House of Commons Library, specialising in international affairs and defence, discusses the UK’s first post Brexit sanctions.