Lawmakers Urge Biden Admin to Sanction Syrian Military Official
The Biden administration should sanction Amjad Yousef, a Syrian military official, for his role in killing innocent civilians during the Tadamon massacre in Syria in April 2013, said the Republican and Democratic leaders on the House and Senate foreign relations committees. The lawmakers said Yousef should be sanctioned under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019, adding that they have taken “note of the disappointingly slow pace of sanctions under the Caesar Act and believe more can be done to ensure that perpetrators of atrocities in Syria face consequences for their actions.”
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In a March 23 letter signed by Reps. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., and Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Jim Risch, R-Idaho, the lawmakers said it would be “fitting for this administration’s first use of sanctions authority” under the law to come against Yousef, “a man whose heinous crimes are shocking even in the context of Syria’s 12 years of brutality.” The State and Treasury departments didn’t comment.