World Courant
WASHINGTON
The US on Friday introduced new visa restrictions concentrating on present and former Syrian authorities officers and different people who have been accused of being answerable for or complicit within the repression of Syrians by violence and extreme human rights abuses.
In a press release, State Division Spokesman Matthew Miller stated that Secretary of State Antony Blinken has taken motion to impose visa restrictions on 10 authorities officers and their speedy members of the family as a result of their involvement in severe human rights violations.
Miller stated the brand new restrictions complement the visa restrictions introduced earlier, which focused 11 Syrian regime officers and their speedy households in December 2023.
“We is not going to normalize relations with the Assad regime absent genuine progress in the direction of a long-lasting political resolution according to UNSCR 2254,” Miller stated.
“We reaffirm our unwavering assist for the Syrian individuals, together with of their ongoing peaceable calls for for freedom and dignity,” he stated, including that the US will proceed to hunt and pursue visa restrictions towards.
This 12 months marks the thirteenth anniversary of the March 15 widespread rebellion in 2011, which started when a bunch of major faculty college students in Syria’s southern metropolis of Daraa inscribed anti-Bashar al-Assad regime slogans on a faculty wall.
The civil struggle that ensued claimed the lives of a whole bunch of hundreds of civilians. UN officers have documented struggle crimes together with the usage of chemical weapons, hunger, deportations, blockades, arbitrary arrests, and torture.
Based on the United Nations Refugee Company (UNHCR), greater than 14 million Syrians have been compelled to go away their properties whereas 7.2 million remained internally displaced inside the nation, which earlier than 2011 had a inhabitants of round 22-23 million. Türkiye alone hosts roughly 3.7 million of those individuals – greater than every other nation on this planet.
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