Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Collins of Highbury on 23 December 2024 (HL3321), which individuals have been designated as perpetrators of sexual violence in Syria since 2023.

In March 2023, Amjad Youssef was sanctioned, for involvement in repressing the civilian population in Syria, including through systematic rape and killing of civilians, as a member of '227 Region Branch'. In June 2023, Abdel Karim Mahmoud Ibrahim, former Chief of the General Staff of Syrian Army, was sanctioned. He was involved in the repression of the Syrian population through commanding military forces where there was systematic use of rape. Ali Mahmoud Abbas, former Syrian Minister of Defence, was also sanctioned in June 2023, for his commanding role of the Syrian armed forces who have systematically used rape against civilians.