Last Updated: January 16, 2025

Zaw Min Tun

Position

Press Team Leader of the State Administrative Council appointed on 5 February 2021 and the Deputy Minister for Information appointed on 7 February 2021 by the State Administrative Council (SAC) led by \nCommander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing. He was the former Head of the Tatmadaw’s True News Information Team.

Linked to

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32021R0998&from=EN

Official reason

Brigadier-General Zaw Min Tun is the Press Team Leader of the State Administrative Council and the Deputy Minister for Information. He was the former Head of the Tatmadaw’s True News Information Team. On 1 February 2021, the Myanmar Armed Forces (Tatmadaw), led by Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, staged a coup in Myanmar by setting aside the ...

Other Information

(Date of UN designation: 2021-06-21)

Date of listing

2021-06-21

Program information

Authority

EU

Program

Restrictive measures in view of the situation in Myanmar/Burma

Regime

EU country specific

Target State

Myanmar

Measures

Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission

Sanctions Portfolio

- All assets of the persons and entities listed in Annexes IV of Council Regulation (EU) 401/2013 should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them. The list of persons and entities concerned is included in the Financial Sanctions Database (linked). - Member States shall enforce travel rest...

Official Information

In view of the absence of progress towards democratization and of the violation of human rights in Myanmar/Burma, on 28 October 1996, the EU reaffirmed the restrictive measures already in place, which included an arms embargo, and introduced additional ones, such as travel restrictions and the suspension of high-level bilateral governmental visits ...

Program URL

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02013D0184-20210621&fbclid=IwAR0aIQnhLlfDnP0xn_quu9Lbspv8IE6NVrAMZlPRSROKs-MdZS6xhSJdTQI