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Sanctions Guide – June 2025

Sanctions activity in June 2025 was marked by the continuation of US designations against transnational criminal networks and narcotics traffickers, as well as the revocation of sanctions against Syria, with the exception of key members…
Dom Dixey
July 3, 2025

Sanctions Guide – December 2020

Key sanctions developments in November include growing signs that the EU may sanction Turkey over a Mediterranean energy dispute; the US sanctioning of a senior Lebanese politician linked to Hezbollah;…

Sanctions Guide – November 2020

Key sanctions developments in October include EU moves against Russian officials implicated in the alleged poisoning of Alexei Navalny and a cyberattack on the German parliament; the tightening of US…

Sanctions Guide – October 2020

Key sanctions developments include the UK and Canada’s imposition of measures on Belarus following an allegedly rigged election and post-ballot violence; a row between the EU and Turkey over the…

Sanctions Guide – September 2020

Sanctions Guide – September 2020 Key sanctions developments this month include the UN Security Council’s defeat of a US bid to re-impose international sanctions against Iran, the sanctioning of Belarusian...

Sanctions Guide – August 2020

Key sanctions developments in July include a number of US measures against China as tensions between them rise; Britain’s launch of an independent sanctions regime; the EU’s first use of…

Sanctions Guide – July 2020

Sanctions Guide – July 2020   Key sanctions developments in June include President Trump’s seeming U-turn over plans to sanctions Chinese officials implicated in human rights abuses; the US sanctioning...

Sanctions Guide – June 2020

Sanctions Guide – June 2020   Key developments this month include heightened US tensions with China over Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Washington’s sanctioning of Iran’s interior minister for alleged human…