Τhe Council imposed restrictive measures on eight individuals responsible for serious human rights violations, the repression of civil society and democratic opposition, and for undermining democracy and the rule of law in Russia.

The new listings target members of the judiciary – 2 judges, one prosecutor and one investigator – involved in politically motivated trials – responsible for sentencing Russian activists on politically motivated charges. Furthermore, the measures agreed target the heads of penal colonies and a pre-detention centre, where political prisoners, speaking out against Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and criticising Putin’s regime, were held and kept in solitary confinement and inhuman and degrading conditions.

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