Last Updated: January 16, 2025
Saqer Asad al-Rostom
Aliases
صقر رستم; صقر أسعد الرستم; Saqr Asad al-Rostom; Saqer Asad al-Rustom; Saqr Asad al-Rustom; Saqer Asad RUSTOM; Saqr Asad RUSTOM; Saqer Asaad al-Rostom; Saqr Asaad al-Rostom; Saqer Asaad al-Rustom; Saqr Asaad al-Rustom; Saqer Asaad RUSTOM; Saqr Asaad RUSTOM; Saqr As’ad al-Rostom; Saqer As’ad al-Rostom; Saqer As’ad al-Rustom; Saqr As’a...
Position
Head of National Defence Force in Homs
DoB
1947-12-04
Linked to
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=OJ:L_202401517
Official reason
Head of the local branch of the National Defence Force in Homs (a regime militia - Shabiha). Responsible for its participation in the brutal repression of the civilian population in Syria. Through his militia, Saqr Rustom is responsible for multiple war profiteering schemes and is therefore benefiting from and supporting the Syrian regime. Associat...
Other Information
(Date of UN designation: 2020-02-17)
Date of listing
2024-05-27
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