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Syria: Mass Unlawful Asset Freezes

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par Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image The central bank building in Syria's capital, Damascus, on February 28, 2012. © ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images (Beirut) – The Syrian Ministry of Finance has targeted, since early 2024, hundreds of people and their families from a town south of Damascus with unlawful asset freezes, Human Rights Watch said today. The en masse asset freezes constitute collective punishment and a violation of the right to property.These decisions are based on a 2012 decree that empowers the Finance Ministry to freeze assets of individuals pending investigation for suspected…

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