Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/397 of 5 March 2021 implementing Regulation (EU) No 1352/2014 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Yemen

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) No 1352/2014 of 18 December 2014 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Yemen ¹, and in particular Article 15(1) thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

Whereas:

• (1) On 18 December 2014, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) No 1352/2014.

• (2) On 25 February 2021, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2564 (2021) which, inter alia, designates one individual to be subject to restrictive measures.

• (3) Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1352/2014 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1352/2014 is hereby amended as set out in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 5 March 2021.

For the Council

The President

A. P. ZACARIAS

ANNEX

The following entry is added to the list set out in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1352/2014 (List of persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 2):

• ‘6. Sultan Saleh Aida Aida Zabin

Other information: Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Sanaa. Has engaged in acts that threaten the peace, security, and stability of Yemen. Date of UN designation: 25.2.2021.

Additional information from the narrative summary of reasons for listing provided by the Sanctions Committee:

Sultan Saleh Aida Aida Zabin has engaged in acts that threaten the peace, security and stability of Yemen, including violations of applicable international humanitarian law and human rights abuses in Yemen.

Sultan Saleh Aida Aida Zabin is the director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Sanaa. He has played a prominent role in a policy of intimidation and use of systematic arrest, detention, torture, sexual violence and rape against politically active women. Zabin as director for CID is directly responsible for, or by virtue of his authority responsible for, and complicit in the use of multiple places of detention including house arrest, police stations, formal prisons and detention centres and undisclosed detention centres. In these sites, women, including at least one minor, were forcibly disappeared, repeatedly interrogated, raped, tortured, denied timely medical treatment and subjected to forced labour. Zabin himself directly inflicted torture in some cases.’