< p>The EU Council added six Russians to the sanctions list for human rights violations in temporarily occupied Crimea.
This is stated in the Official Journal of the European Union.
— The European Union is concerned about the deteriorating human rights situation on the Crimean Peninsula, especially in the context of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. In this context, six persons should be included in the list of natural and legal persons, organizations and bodies subject to restrictive measures contained in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2020/1998, — the message says.
So, the sanctions list included FSB employees, prosecutors, judges involved in the persecution of the Crimean Tatars and journalist Vladislav Esipenko.
Now they are watching
The decision comes into effect force from the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the EU.
Recall that FSB officers detained Vladislav Esipenko in March 2021 in temporarily occupied Crimea. The Russian Federation accused a Ukrainian journalist of “illegal storage and transportation of an explosive device”.
On February 16, 2022, the so-called Simferopol district court illegally sentenced Esipenko to six years in prison in a general regime colony and a fine of 110 thousand Russian rubles.
On August 18, it became known that the “court” in Crimea, reduced Esipenko's sentence from six to five years.
