Russia blocks UN sanctions against Libya's al-Kaniyat militiaRussia on Friday stopped a U.N. Security Council committee from blacklisting Libya's al-Kaniyat militia and its leader Mohammed al-Kani over human rights abuses because it said it wanted to see more evidence first that they had killed civilians, Reuters reports. The United States and Germany had proposed that the council’s 15-member Libya sanctions committee impose an asset freeze and travel ban on the . Such a move has to be agreed by consensus, but Russia said it could not approve. Mohammed al-Kani in GermanyDespite German backing for the sanctions however, Süddeutsche Zeitung revealed in September that Al-Kani had received been receiving medical treatment in Bonn. The newspaper said Al-Kani received medical treatment at the university hospital of Bonn in January and February 2018 due to wounds he suffered in the war on Tripoli.

Source: Libya Today November 21, 2020 00:56 UTC