Brussels: The Council of the EU announced on Monday its decision to prolong and update the list of individuals, entities, and bodies subject to restrictive measures due to serious human rights violations. This extension will last for an additional year, continuing until December 8, 2025.
According to Kuwait News Agency, a press release from the Council indicated that these restrictive measures currently impact 116 individuals and 33 entities. Those listed face asset freezes, and European individuals and entities are barred from providing funds, financial assets, or economic resources to them. Furthermore, a travel ban to the EU is enforced on the listed individuals.
The statement underscored that the decision reinforces the EU’s commitment to condemning human rights violations and abuses wherever they occur. It highlighted the EU’s resolve to utilize all available tools to stress that human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent, and interconnected.
The EU’s Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime
, which was established on December 7, 2020, empowers the EU to target individuals, entities, and bodies-whether state or non-state actors-responsible for, involved in, or associated with serious human rights violations globally.