Australian Magnitsky-Style Sanctions
On 31 January 2023, Australia announced the second tranche of
financial and travel sanctions under the Autonomous Sanctions
Amendment (Magnitsky-style and Other Thematic Sanctions)
Regulations 2021 (the Magnitsky-style
Regulations), which were introduced on 21 December
2021.
As discussed in our previous updates from August 2021, December 2021, and April 2022, the Magnitsky-style Regulations
were introduced to expand Australia's autonomous sanctions
framework to facilitate targeted sanctions against individuals and
entities responsible for, or complicit in, serious corruption,
human rights violations and cyber-crime.
On 31 January 2023, Australia designated 16
Iranian individuals and 1 entity in Iran involved in serious abuses
of the right to life and the right not to be subjected to torture
or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in particular the
oppression of women in enforcing the Islamic dress code and
