Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Makhmoud AL-KHATTIB
Aliases
Makhmoud AL-KHATIB; Mahmoud AL-KHATTIB; Mahmoud AL-KHATIB; Mahmoud AL-KHATEEB; Makhmoud AL-KHATEEB; محمود الخطيب
Position
Head of Investigative Branch (Political Security Directorate)
Linked to
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32020R0716&from=EN
Official reason
As Head of the Investigative Branch of the Political Security Directorate, responsible for detention and torture of detainees.
Other Information
(Date of listing: 23.1.2012.)
Date of listing
2020-05-29
Program information
Authority
EU
Program
Restrictive measures against Syria
Regime
EU country specific
Target State
Syria
Measures
Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission
Sanctions Portfolio
- All assets of the listed persons and entities should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them. - Member States shall enforce travel restrictions on persons listed in the Annex I of Council Decision 2013/255/CFSP.
Official Information
On 27 May 2013, the Council of the EU adopted conclusions in which it condemned the violence and the continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights in Syria, the massacres committed by the Syrian armed forces and its militias, all instances of hostage taking of peacekeepers, and the atrocities committed by the Syrian regime. I...
Program URL
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02013D0255-20230720