"A campaign of economic and political pressure" was launched on Wednesday June 17 by the United States against the Syrian government. It sanctions 39 people and entities, including President Bashar al-Assad and his wife, in the context of the new "Caesar law".

"From today, the sanctions provided for by the Caesar law come into full force. Anyone who does business with the Assad regime, and wherever it is in the world, is exposed to travel restrictions and financial sanctions, "said US Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo in a statement.

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"We are planning many more sanctions and will not stop until Assad and his regime have ended their unnecessary and brutal war against the Syrian people and the Syrian government has not accepted a political solution", he warned.

He said many of the people and companies targeted on Wednesday "played a key role in preventing a peaceful political solution to the conflict", while others "helped and funded the atrocities of the Assad regime" while "s" rewarding ".

Bashar al-Assad's wife punished for the first time

Many members of the Syrian president's family are involved. Some were already on other American black lists but others, like his wife Asma al-Assad, are sanctioned for the first time by Washington.

The "Caesar law" was enacted in December by President of the United States Donald Trump. César is the pseudonym of an ex-photographer of the Syrian military police who defected in 2013 by taking away 55,000 images illustrating brutality and abuse in Syrian prisons.

His hearing, incognito, before the American Congress in 2014 had been at the origin of this text which bears his name and which will have taken five years to see the light of day.

With AFP

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