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Kenneth Roth

Politician · Counter-sanctioned entity

Kenneth Roth is subject to counter-sanctions. Counter-sanctions are designations imposed by countries with weak democratic institutions. They are often punitive responses to foreign sanctions, or can be used to suppress domestic political opposition. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Kenneth Roth · Κένεθ Ροθ · Кеннет Рот · كينيث روث · کنت روث · 2 more...				[sources]
Other name	К. Рот · 罗斯				[sources]
Weak alias	肯尼思・罗斯 · 肯尼斯·罗斯				[sources]
Birth date	1955-09-23				[sources]
Place of birth	Elmhurst				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	United States				[sources]
Citizenship	United States				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Kenneth				[sources]
Last name	Roth				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q6390647				[sources]
Position	United States Attorney · executive director (1993-2022)				[sources]
Education	Brown University · Yale Law School				[sources]
Last change	2025-07-01	Last processed	2025-11-03	First seen	2024-05-22

Descriptions

Executive Director, Human Rights Watch

— China Sanctions Research non-official source, 2024-05-22

American human rights activist

— Wikidata non-official source, 2024-05-24

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
China	Ministry of Foreign Affairs		2020-08-10	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
United States Attorney	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons275,228

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

China Sanctions Research218

Individuals and organisations targeted by the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, Counter-Measures List and the Unreliable Entities List (UEL).

China · OpenSanctions · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata334,043

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions550,256

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

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