Syria Human Rights Accountability Act of 2012

S.2034
Introduced: 
January 24, 2012
112
Second
January 24, 2012
Referred to Senate (sub)committee

This bill was attached in its entirety on 5/21/12 as an amendment to *H.R. 1905, which passed into law several days later.

It would require the president to impose sanctions on anyone he finds to be complicit in human rights violations in Syria, to have transferred goods or technologies likely to be used to commit human rights abuses in Syria, to have engaged in censorship in Syria, or to have transferred technologies the president determines censor the free flow of information in Syria. The president would be able to waive the sanctions if he finds it in the U.S. national interest to do so and only after reporting such a decision to Congress.

The sanctions would remain in effect until, inter alia, Syria ceases providing support for Hamas, Hizballah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

2 cosponsors (2D)

See also: *H.R. 1905 of 5/13/11.

Last major action: 1/24/12 referred to Senate cmte.

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