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Britain, which formally left the EU in January 2020, previously imposed sanctions through the bloc. AFP pic
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LONDON, March 15 Britain today announced targeted sanctions against six members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, including Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, for “repressing the Syrian people or benefitting from their misery”.
The measures, which comprise travel bans and asset freezes and come on the 10
th anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising in Syria, also target an Assad adviser, two senior military commanders and two businessmen.
Syrian foreign minister targeted with UK sanctions
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March 16, 2021
LONDON: Dominic Raab has condemned the “brutality” during a decade of conflict in Syria as he announced sanctions against six figures linked to Bashar Assad’s regime.
Syria’s foreign minister Faisal Miqdad was among the group of military officers and businessmen with links to the regime who were subjected to asset freezes and travel bans.They are the first measures to be taken in relation to Syria under the UK’s sanctions regime, which came into force following the end of the Brexit transition period. “The Assad regime has subjected the Syrian people to a decade of brutality for the temerity of demanding peaceful reform,” Foreign Secretary Mr Raab said.
The measures, which comprise travel bans and asset freezes and come on the 10th anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising in Syria.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The UK has imposed sanctions on six allies of Syria’s ruler Bashar Assad a decade after the country’s brutal civil war began. The asset freezes and travel bans are a response to the Assad regime’s “wholesale assault” on the Syrian people, foreign secretary Dominic Raab said, as the country marks 10 years of conflict. “The Assad regime has subjected the Syrian people to a decade of brutality for the temerity of demanding peaceful reform,” said Mr.
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.”