adminlinked to human rights abuse, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said.
An asset freeze and visa ban were extended to “two further entities closely linked to the perpetrators of the serious human rights abuses in Libya, given the gravity of the situation,” Ashton said in a statement.
She gave no further details but a French foreign ministry spokeswoman said the previous day that the restrictions would target Al-Sharara, which operates in the oil sector, and an administrative organisation linked to Kadhafi.
The new targets will be listed in today’s EU Official Journal.
To date, six port authorities, 49 entities and 39 people are now subject to a freeze of their funds and financial resources in the EU, Ashton said.
In addition, the same 39 persons, which include Kadhafi and several family members, are banned from entering the EU.
Meanwhile, Libyan state television showed on Tuesday what it said was footage of Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis, who rebels said last week had been killed, visiting Libyans wounded in an air attack east of Tripoli.
The Libyan government has denied rebel claims that Khamis, commander of one of Gaddafi’s most loyal and best-equipped units, had been killed by a NATO air strike near Zlitan.
Libyan TV said the footage was recorded on Tuesday. If genuine, it would be the first visual proof by Gaddafi’s government that Khamis Gaddafi was still alive.
Wearing a military uniform and an orange beret and bearing a striking resemblance to Khamis, a man was heard chatting to people the network said were wounded earlier on Tuesday in a NATO air strike on farmhouses near Zlitan.
The government said dozens of civilians were killed in the attack. NATO said it hit a legitimate military target and was investigating the incident.
“They bombed the house. You mean you did not expect to be bombed,” Khamis could be heard asking a woman lying in a hospital bed. – AFP-Reuters.
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