Written questions

Syria: Sexual Offences

Lords · Question HL4181 · Tabled 17 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 29 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Lord Roberts of Llandudno

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Collins of Highbury on 23 December 2024 (HL3321), which individuals have been designated as perpetrators of sexual violence in Syria since 2023.

Answer

Answered by Lord Collins of Highbury, 29 Jan 2025

In March 2023, Amjad Youssef was sanctioned, for involvement in repressing the civilian population in Syria, including through systematic rape and killing of civilians, as a member of '227 Region Branch'. In June 2023, Abdel Karim Mahmoud Ibrahim, former ...