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The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2016 was a long-waited act drafted by the United States Congress by both Democrats and Republicans during a lame duck session sanctioning the Syrian government. [33] On November 15, 2016, it passed the House unanimously as The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act (HR 5732). [34]
The Caesar Act was named for a Syrian police defector code-named "Caesar," who smuggled out tens of thousands of photos showing people tortured to death by Assad's government from 2011 to 2013, at ...
The 2014 Syrian detainee report, also known as the Caesar Report, [1] formally titled A Report into the credibility of certain evidence with regard to Torture and Execution of Persons Incarcerated by the current Syrian regime, is a report that claims to detail "the systematic killing of more than 11,000 detainees by the Syrian government in one region during the Syrian Civil War over a two and ...
International sanctions against Syria are a series of economic sanctions and restrictions imposed on Syria which was under the Ba'athist regime at that time by the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland, mainly as a result of the repression of civilians in the Syrian civil war from 2011 onwards.
The Syrian military defector codenamed Caesar, who smuggled out more than 53,000 haunting images showing tortured, emaciated corpses of Syrian detainees – evidence that led to landmark sanctions ...
The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which included an extension until 2029 of the "Caesar sanctions," which apply to business in Syria ...
The Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) worked in partnership with the Caesar Team and the former Syrian military photographer, code-named Caesar, [2] who smuggled 55,000 photographs out of Syria. These images are known as the Caesar file. [3] [non-primary source needed] Caesar's testimony before a U.S. congressional committee prompted the ...
Mohammad Alaa Ghanem, a Syrian activist in Washington, D.C. with the Citizens for a Secure and Safe America, told Reuters his group had been working to extend the Caesar sanctions and assessed ...