§8792 Imposition of Sanctions with Respect to the Transfer of Goods or Technologies to Syria That Are Likely to Be Used to Commit Human Rights Abuses

Summary

The President must impose the penalties listed in section 8791(c) on people tied to sending goods or technology to Syria that could be used to harm people there. That includes anyone on a special list, any company that succeeds a listed person, anyone who owns or controls a listed person if they knew or should have known about the bad activity, and anyone owned or controlled with a listed person who knowingly took part. Within 120 days after August 10, 2012, the President must send Congress a list of people who, on or after that date, knowingly shipped or helped ship certain goods or technology to Syria or gave services for those items after they arrived. The covered items include weapons and crowd-control gear (like firearms, rubber bullets, batons, pepper spray, stun grenades, tear gas, water cannons), surveillance tools, and "sensitive technology" used to block news or monitor or silence speech. A person can be left off the list if the President certifies they stopped and gave reliable promises not to do it again. The list must be unclassified (but can have a secret annex), posted publicly, and updated 300 days after August 10, 2012, every 180 days after that, and whenever new information appears.