UK announces new sanctions against allies of Syria s Assad after decade of brutality
The sanctions come on the ten-year anniversary of the Syrian civil war
15 March 2021 • 2:21pm
Free Syrian Army fighter from the Al-Faruk brigade, center, steps on a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad
Credit: AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File
Britain has sanctioned senior members of Bashar al-Assad’s Syrian government for their role in the persecution and killing of civilians during the country’s ten-year civil war.
Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, on Monday announced travel bans and asset freezes against six figures he says were complicit in a “wholesale assault on the very citizens they should be protecting.”
UK imposes sanctions on six Syrian regime figures including foreign minister
Close allies of President Bashar Al Assad will be subject to travel bans and frozen assets
Syrian soldiers are seen cheering President Bashar Al Assad during his visit to Al Habit on the southern edges of the Idlib province, in a picture released on October 22, 2019. AFP / Syrian Presidency Facebook page
A Turkish gendarme retrieves the body of Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi from a beach in Turkey. Reuters
The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter conducts strikes while in the Mediterranean Sea, on April 7, 2017. AFP / US NAVY
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency on October 31, 2013, shows the remains of a mortar after an alleged mortar attack by rebel fighters on the Damascus mixed Christian-Druze suburb of Jaramana. AFP / Sana
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