European Union states decided on Friday to impose sanctions on the wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s and other members of his family, increasing pressure on his government to end a crackdown on popular unrest.
Foreign ministers meeting in Brussels also imposed asset freezes and bans on travel to the EU on several other Syrians and banned European companies from doing business with two Syrian entities, EU officials said.
A full list of sanctions targets will be made public on Saturday when the decision comes into force. EU diplomats said the list included the Syrian president’s wife Asma and family. “She is on the list. It’s the whole clan,” one EU diplomat said.
The envoy for the UN and the Arab League, Kofi Annan, is to travel to Moscow and Beijing this weekend for talks on the crisis, his office said.
Russia and China have vetoed two UN Security Council resolutions on Syria for fear that intervention could lead to regime change, as happened in Libya last year.
Bassey, through his lawyers, asked the IGP to arrest, and bring the suspects to justice.
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