The EU imposed sanctions against Ekaterina Mizulina and the judges in the Kara-Murza case

The European Union included Ekaterina Mizulina and the Safe Internet League, which she heads, on the sanctions list related to human rights violations. The EU Council found that her actions violated “freedom of opinion and expression.”

Also included in the list are the capital's Golovinsky interdistrict prosecutor Oleg Alypov, judges of the Moscow City Court and Basmanny Court Lyudmila Smolkina and Valentina Levashova. Their inclusion in the list is connected with the case of high treason against Vladimir Kara-Murza (recognized by the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent).

Mizulina responded to the message about the sanctions imposed against her by writing in her Telegram channel: “I serve Russia.”

This is not the first time that the EU has imposed sanctions due to the Kara-Murza case. After his sentencing in April last year (the oppositionist was sentenced to 25 years in a maximum security colony for cases of treason and fakes about the army), judges, an investigator, Deputy Minister of Justice Oleg Sviridenko, who oversees the departments responsible for enforcing the law on foreign agents, as well as the chief Moscow pre-trial detention center "Vodnik" Dmitry Komnov, where Kara-Murza was kept before being transferred to a colony.

Restrictions in connection with this case were also introduced by Great Britain , the USA  and Australia .

Ekaterina Mizulina is the daughter of ex-senator Elena Mizulina. She has led the League for a Safer Internet (SLI, founded in 2011) since 2017. Mizulina regularly complains about publications by bloggers whose actions, in her opinion, violate the law or do not comply with ethical standards.

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Thus, last spring, Mizulina reported that after appeals from LBI, by decision of Roskomnadzor and the Federal Tax Service, the resources of more than a dozen streamers on Telegram , Twitch and Kick (the last two are platforms for streaming games) were added to the register of prohibited sites due to illegal casino advertising. Among them was Yegor Creed.

In the fall, Mizulina turned to the Russian Ministry of Defense with a proposal to draft blogger Danya Milokhin, who had returned to Russia, into the army, noting that he had no reason for a deferment. In her opinion, the army will “contribute to the patriotic education” of Milokhin.

After this, State Duma Deputy Speaker Vladimir Davankov said that the lower house of the Russian parliament had accelerated the development of a bill on compulsory labor for “serial informers,” proposing to call it “Mizulina’s law.” “I am confident that 100 hours of compulsory work will bring much greater benefit to the country than attempts to impose homemade justice on the Internet,” he said.