The British government yesterday announced sanctions against six allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including Foreign Minister Faisal Moqdad. “The Assad regime subjected the Syrian people to a decade of brutality for having the courage to demand peaceful reform,” Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said. “Today we call on six other people in the regime to account for the large-scale violence against the citizens they should protect,” he added. Besides Mr. Moqdad, two senior military officers, two businessmen and President’s advisor Luna el-Shibl will be subject to a freeze of their assets and a travel ban. In January, the European Union added Mr. Moqdad to its blacklist of people sanctioned for “their responsibility” in the bloody crackdown carried out by Bashar al-Assad’s regime. This decision brought to 289 the number of people on this list and targeted by a travel ban and a freeze of their assets.
The perpetrators of the atrocities committed in Syria during the last decade must not go unpunished, declared for his part the personal representative of President Emmanuel Macron for Syria, François Sénémaud, during a round table organized on the sidelines of the 46th session of the UN Human Rights Council. For his part, Emmanuel Macron again pleaded yesterday for “a political solution, the only possible one”, in a conflict that has so far remained without outcome.
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The British government yesterday announced sanctions against six allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, including Foreign Minister Faisal Moqdad. “The Assad regime subjected the Syrian people to a decade of brutality for having the courage to demand peaceful reform,” Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said ….