US sanctions Iraqi militia leader over rights abuses
The US Treasury Department said in a statement it was blacklisting Falih al-Fayyadh, chairman of the Iraqi Hashed al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF).
Saturday 09/01/2021
Falah al-Fayadh, Iraqi national security adviser and chief of the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation Forces), gives a press conference at the organisation’s command headquarters in the southern city of Basra on March 7, 2018. (AFP)
WASHINGTON The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on an Iraqi militia leader and former national security adviser, connecting him to human rights abuses during the 2019 anti-government demonstrations in which hundreds of protesters were killed.