Biden Imposes New Sanctions on Syrian Prisons and Officials

• July 28, 2021, 5:00 p.m. ET

The Biden medication imposed caller sanctions connected a radical of Syrian prisons and officials connected Wednesday arsenic portion of its effort to unit the authorities of President Bashar al-Assad to extremity quality rights abuses.

The sanctions were the archetypal to beryllium directed astatine Syria by the Biden administration, which called for a solution to the civilian warfare that has gone connected for much than a decade.

“Today’s designations beforehand accountability for abuses committed against the Syrian radical and contradict rogue actors entree to the planetary fiscal system,” Andrea M. Gacki, the manager of the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, said successful a statement. “This enactment demonstrates the United States’ beardown committedness to targeting quality rights abuses successful Syria, careless of the perpetrator.”

The Treasury Department enactment sanctions connected 8 Syrian prisons, 5 Assad authorities officials who enactment successful the institutions that tally those facilities, 2 militia groups and 2 militia leaders.

The Syrian authorities has tortured 14,000 Syrians to death, and 130,000 Syrians are missing oregon stay “arbitrarily detained,” according to the Treasury Department.

The sanctions were announced successful coordination with the State Department, which noted that immoderate of the prisons appeared successful photographs provided by a Syrian defector who had worked arsenic an authoritative lensman for the Syrian subject and exposed the government’s attraction of detainees.

“These actions underscore the U.S. committedness to beforehand respect for quality rights and accountability for maltreatment against Syrians,” Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said successful a statement.