- Programme
- Situation in Ukraine
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Legal basis
- Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), Art. 15 para. 1 and 4 (Financial sanctions) and art. 29 para. 1 (Travel ban), annexe 8
- Stated grounds
- Mansur Soltaev is the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Chechen Republic. In that capacity, he serves as a key government interlocutor, actively promoting official narratives. Mansur Soltaev is responsible for human rights violations, persecution of anti-war militants and the suppression of protests against the Russian mobilization of troops. He is also participating in the deportation of civilians of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” and in the so-called “Luhansk People’s Republic”, including the deportation of Ukrainian children to military training camps in Chechnya. Mansur Soltaev’s actions violate the rights of Ukrainian children and infringe Ukraine’s law and administrative order. Therefore, Mansur Soltaev is responsible for supporting and implementing actions and policies which undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026