FACTBOX: Sanctions on Zimbabwe

(Reuters) - Below are details of sanctions and restrictions in place against Zimbabwe and other measures that could be considered.

VISA BANS AND ASSET FREEZES:

-- The European Union imposed a visa ban on Mugabe and 19 of his top officials in 2002 because of the way Zimbabwe treated observers sent to monitor presidential elections.

-- That has now been expanded to more than 100 of Mugabe's closest aides and family.

-- The European Union has also frozen the overseas assets of the same list of Zimbabweans who are subject to its visa ban.

-- The United States first imposed sanctions in March 2003 and later widened them to apply to a total of about 250 people accused of undermining democracy.

-- The U.S. sanctions also bar Americans from engaging in any transactions or dealings with them.

ARMS EMBARGOES:

-- The European Union has an embargo on the sale and supply of arms and technical advice and of equipment which could be used for internal repression in Zimbabwe.

-- The embargo also prohibits technical and financial assistance related to military activities.

-- The United States has a ban on transfers of defense items and services, and a suspension of non-humanitarian government-to-government assistance.

-- The United States welcomed an idea from Britain for a full arms embargo.

-- A shipment of Chinese arms bound for Zimbabwe was recalled in April after port workers in the region refused to unload it and Western countries urged a stop to arms supplies.

ISOLATION:

-- The Commonwealth group of mainly former British colonies suspended Zimbabwe in early 2002 on the grounds that Mugabe had rigged his re-election and persecuted his opponents.

-- Zimbabwe formally withdrew from the 54-nation group in 2003 after the suspension was extended indefinitely.