EU imposed sanctions on individuals and entities involving in the human rights violations
The European Council has imposed limiting procedures on 11 individuals and four entities responsible for severe human rights violations and abuses in many countries, including Libya.
The US, Britain, and Germany previously called the Council’s 15-member Libya Sanctions Committee to blacklist Mohammed al-Kani and the Kaniyat militia. Indeed, since their fly from Tarhuna last summer after a military defeat, dozens of graves were revealed and attributed to Kaniyat militiamen.
In this context, the council imposed sanctions on two individuals and the militia group about extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Libya.
The sanctions were imposed on Mohammed Khalifa al-Kani and his brother Abderrahim al-Kani with accusations of committing human rights violations between 2015 and June 2020 in Tarhuna.
Otherwise, under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, the blacklist individuals and entities are subject to an asset freeze in the EU. They individuals also are subject to a travel prohibition to EU countries.
On his part, a former Libyan military officer informed Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that militias controlled the country during the past years and achieved benefits via human trafficking and threatening.
The officer called the EU and the Security Council to treat the matters of killings and obligatory disappearances of citizens. He also said that armed groups would disappear if the government of national unity succeeds in uniting the military and security institutions in Libya.
