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It is no secret that the Magnitsky case contributed to the introduction of this ban. The UK is now tightening immigration rules and will ban entry into the country of non-EU citizens accused of serious human rights crimes, including torture and murder.

These measures will allow visas to be refused in cases where there is credible evidence of past or ongoing human rights crimes. However, they do not provide for a blanket ban on visas to foreign officials accused of such crimes, and these individuals, including heads of state guilty of human rights violations, may be allowed into the country if required as part of a policy of cooperation on human rights issues.

There is currently no list of people officially banned from entering the UK and each case is assessed on a case by case basis. Officials admit that there have been times when, when wanting to deny visas to certain people, they had to defend their positions at length because they did not have the right to do so solely on the basis of evidence of human rights violations by these people. Until now, only those people who pose a threat to national security could be denied entry into the country.

The new rules state: “Nationals of foreign countries outside the European Economic Area can only cross into the UK if they comply with immigration law requirements. Where there is independent, reliable and credible evidence that a person has committed a human rights offence, that person will be prohibited from entering the United Kingdom.”

One Foreign Office official told the Observer: “This will mean that rich and powerful people from all over the world, including Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa, will no longer be able to freely come to the UK if they have been involved in torture, murder or unlawful detention, regardless of whether it happened here or somewhere else.”