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| Type | Person | [sources] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Bishr Riyad Yazigi · بشر اليازجي · بشر يازجي | [sources] | |||
| Birth date | · | [sources] | |||
| Place of birth | Aleppo | [sources] | |||
| Gender | male | [sources] | |||
| Nationality | Syria | [sources] | |||
| Country | Syria | [sources] | |||
| Citizenship | Syria | [sources] | |||
| Classification | National government (unknown status) | [sources] | |||
| First name | Bishr · Bishr Riyad · Riyad | [sources] | |||
| Last name | Yazigi | [sources] | |||
| Wikidata ID | Q60455275 | [sources] | |||
| Wikipedia Article | ar.wikipedia.org | [sources] | |||
| Position | Adviser to President Bashar al Assad · Advisor to the President Bashar al-Assad. Former Minister of Tourism. · Member of the People's Council of Syria · Minister of Tourism of Syria · People’s Council (member, 2012-2016) | [sources] | |||
| Education | University of Aleppo (-1995) | [sources] | |||
| Source link | eur-lex.europa.eu · eur-lex.europa.eu · gels-avoirs.dgtresor.gouv.fr | [sources] | |||
| Last change | Last processed | First seen | |||
(Date of UN designation: 2014-06-24)
Advisor to former President Bashar al-Assad. Former Minister of Tourism under the former al-Assad regime. As a former Government Minister, shares responsibility for the former al-Assad regime’s violent repression of the civilian population.
Conseiller de l’ancien président Bashar al-Assad. Ancien ministre du tourisme sous l’ancien régime d’al-Assad. En tant qu’ancien ministre du gouvernement, il partage la responsabilité de la répression violente exercée par l’ancien régime d’al-Assad contre la population civile.
Linked to Bashar Asad The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.
Linked to Bashar Asad
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Belgium extends the European FSF sanctions list on the basis of a national terrorist list, issued by the National Security Council
Belgium · FOD
Supplemental list of people, companies, and organizations sanctioned for involvement in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
European Union · Council
Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.
Global · Wikidata · non-official source
Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.
Global · Wikidata · non-official source
Official register of individuals, entities, and vessel subject to UK sanctions under regulations made pursuant to the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018.
United Kingdom · FCDO
A list of entities subject to fund and economic resource freezing procedures.
Monaco · Monaco
As part of the Common Foreign Security Policy the European Union publishes a sanctions list that is implemented by all member states.
European Union · DG FISMA
Switzerland manages a sanctions lists with a high degree of detail on the individuals that are subject to it's embargoes
Switzerland · SECO
All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.
Global · MySociety · non-official source
The register lists all persons, entities and vessels subject to asset freezing measures in force on French territory, pursuant to national, European and international (UN) provisions.
France · DGT
Consolidated information about individuals who have been banned from traveling to the European Union, released as part of the EU Sanctions Map.
European Union · Council
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Country | Authority | Program | Start date | End date | |
| European Union | Directorate‑General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union | - | |||
| Linked to | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object | Role | Start date | End date | |
| Bashar Al-Assad Disqualified · PEP · Sanctioned entity | related-to | - | - | |
| Positions held | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Position occupied | Start date | End date | |
| Member of the People’s Council | - | - | |
| Minister of Tourism of Syria | - | - | |
| European Union | Council of the European Union | - | - | - |
| Monaco | La Principauté de Monaco | - | - | - |
| United Kingdom | Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · UK | UK sanctions relating to Syria | - |
| Belgium | Federal Public Service Finance | EU Restrictive Measures Against Syria | - | - |
| Switzerland | State Secretariat for Economic Affairs | Measures Against Syria | - |
| Member of the People's Council of Syria | - | - |