The Council of the European Union has imposed sanctions on four individuals and two entities for serious human rights abuses worldwide, including torture and systematic and widespread sexual and gender-based violence.
Among sanctioned individuals are Evgeniy Sobolev, the head of the so-called “penitentiary service” in the occupied Kherson oblast, Ukraine; Abdel Karim Mohammed Ibrahim,chief of staff of Syrian army; Ali Mahmoud Abbas, ex-Minister of Defense of Syria; Ri Chang-dae, Minister of State Security of DPRK.
The EU also banned activities of Detention Center in Ansong district, DPRK and Haitian gang Kokorat San.
