The United Kingdom has updated its sanctions list targeting Libyan individuals involved in serious human rights violations and breaches in Libya, related to illegal immigration and smuggling. The list, updated on November 29, includes Osama Al Koni Ibrahim, director of Al-Nasr Detention Center in Zawiya.
The United Nations Security Council had previously imposed sanctions on him for direct or indirect involvement in “acts violating international human rights law, human trafficking, and violence against migrants in Libya.”
The British Treasury’s list also includes Abdul Rahman Milad, known as “Al-Bidja,” the commander of the Coast Guard in Zawiya, and Muhammad Al-Amin Al-Arabi Kashlaf, commander of the National Guard in Zawiya, identified in a report by the international sanctions committee’s expert team as being involved in managing a vast network of trafficking and smuggling in Zawiya.
The list additionally names Saadi Gaddafi and his half-brother Mohammed Gaddafi, and specifies that these individuals remain subject to asset freezes and travel bans. The sanctions list mandates freezing funds and economic resources of persons, entities, or bodies involved in serious human rights violations in Libya or international humanitarian law, or activities undermining Libya’s transition to a democratic, peaceful, and independent state, or any other activity threatening the country’s peace, stability, and security.
Previously, the British Foreign Office had included the Kani Militia and its leaders, Abdul Rahim and Mohammed Kani, on the sanctions list, due to their involvement in human rights violations and international humanitarian law violations in Libya, as announced by the British Foreign Office on May 13, 2021.
