臉書(shū)關(guān)閉受美國(guó)制裁的車臣領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人賬戶

Facebook says it has blocked the social-media accounts of Ramzan Kadyrov because the Kremlin-backed Chechen leader had become subject to financial and travel sanctions imposed by the U.S. government.

The company said in a statement Thursday it had the "legal obligation" to disable Kadyrov’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram, which it also owns, after the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on December 20 hit the Chechen leader with sanctions.

It was not immediately clear if the social-media network was in the process of disabling accounts of others on the sanction lists.

Facebook declined requests from RFE/RL for further information.

臉書(shū)公司說(shuō)，它關(guān)閉了卡德羅夫的賬戶是由于這位得到克里姆林宮支持的車臣領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人是美國(guó)政府予以金融和旅行制裁的目標(biāo)。

臉書(shū)在星期四的一份聲明中說(shuō)，它有關(guān)閉卡德羅夫在臉書(shū)和以及臉書(shū)擁有的Instagram賬戶的法律義務(wù)。美國(guó)財(cái)政部的海外資產(chǎn)辦公室12月20號(hào)宣布對(duì)車臣領(lǐng)導(dǎo)卡德羅夫制裁。

目前不清楚臉書(shū)公司是否也在關(guān)閉其他被列入制裁名單者的賬戶。

臉書(shū)公司拒絕了自由歐洲電臺(tái)和自由電臺(tái)的采訪要求。