European Union has tightened the sanctions against Syria. It has blacklisted 22 more individuals and eight companies to an existing list against the Syrian crackdown on dissent.
The EU has already agreed ten rounds of sanctions against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
It has frozen the assets and put a travel ban on 120 people and companies. An arms embargo and a ban on imports of Syrian crude has also been enforced by the European Union.
The United Nations Security Council, meanwhile, is struggling to agree on a resolution on Damascus’s crackdown on dissent.
Russia, which insists the Syrian opposition, is as much to blame for the violence as the regime, warned against Western calls for punitive measures.
Meanwhile, a group of 140 Arab rights groups condemned the Arab League for a flawed observer mission to Syria and called for U.N. intervention to halt the violence.
