Russia is preventing the UN from blacklisting the Libyan militia leader due to violations of rights
Russia on Friday stopped a UN Security Council committee from blacklisting a putschist general Khalifa Haftar-affiliated militia group and its leaders for human rights violations because they said they first wanted to see more evidence that they had killed civilians.
The United States and Germany proposed that the Council of 15 members of the Libyan Sanctions Committee introduce a freezing and travel ban for the al-Kaniyat militia and its leader Mohammed al-Kani. Such a measure must be agreed by consensus, but Russia said…