LONDON: Britain imposed sanctions on three Iranian judges, three members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and two regional governors, an update to a British government website showed on Monday.
Those added to the sanctions list, and subject to an asset freeze and travel ban were named by Britain’s foreign office as:
- Musa Asif Al-Hosseini, Presiding Judge of Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Courts of Karaj (Alborz Province)
- Hadi Mansouri, Presiding Judge of Branch 4 of the Revolutionary Courts of Mashhad
- Morteza Barati, Presiding Judge of Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Courts of Isfahan
- Mohammad Taghi Osanloo, IRGC Ground Forces Commander
- Parviz Absalan, IRGC Deputy Commander Sistan and Baluchestan
- Amanollah Garshasbi, Deputy Commander of the IRGC for Sistan and Baluchestan Province
- Mohammad Karami, Governor of Sistan and Baluchestan Province
- Hassan Asgari, Governor of Sanandaj
UK sanctions Iranian judges, commanders and regional governors
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UK sanctions Iranian judges, commanders and regional governors
- Those added to the sanctions list are subject to an asset freeze and travel ban
Extermination of Palestinians must stop: African Union chair
ADDIS ABABA: The “extermination” of the Palestinian people must end, the chairman of the African Union Commission Mahmoud Ali Youssouf said on Saturday as he launched the organization’s 39th summit.
“In the Middle East, Palestine and the suffering of its people also challenge our consciences. The extermination of this people must stop,” said Youssouf, who was elected to head the institution a year ago.
The Gaza Strip, a small territory surrounded by Israel, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Sea, has been under a very strict Israeli siege since the start of the war triggered by Hamas’s deadly attack on October 7, 2023.
That attack resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official data.
Since then, at least 71,667 Palestinians have been killed in the small coastal territory by Israel’s retaliatory military campaign, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
He also touched on the multiple conflicts raging in Africa.
“From Sudan to the Sahel, to eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in Somalia and elsewhere, our people continue to pay the heavy price of instability,” Youssouf said.
The summit brings together heads of state from the 55 member states of the African Union over two days.
This year’s theme is water sanitation.
