The EU imposed sanctions against judges and the head of "Vodnik" in the case of Kara-Murza

Under the sanctions were the Deputy Minister of Justice, the investigators who brought charges, and the judge who ruled in the case of the oppositionist. RUSSIApreviously called restrictions interference in internal affairsAnnouncement of the verdict for Vladimir Kara-Murza

The EU has included nine Russians in the sanctions list, according to the EU magazine. The restrictions were introduced for human rights violations, in particular, they are related to the case of oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza (recognized as a foreign agent), who was sentenced to 25 years.

The Union strongly condemns the decision of a Moscow COURT to sentence opposition politician, democratic activist and outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison on politically motivated charges. The Union calls on Russia to immediately and unconditionally release all prisoners on politically motivated charges.

The following were sanctioned:

Deputy Minister of Justice Oleg Sviridenko, who oversees the departments responsible for compliance with the law on foreign agents; Andrei Zadachin, investigator for particularly important cases of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee, who filed charges and asked the court to detain the oppositionist; the HEAD of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee, Denis Kolesnikov, who gave permission for charges to be filed against Kara-Murza; four judges (Judge of the Khamovniki Court Diana Mishchenko, Judge of the Basmanny Court Elena Lenskaya, judges of the Moscow City Court Ilya Kozlov and Sergei Podoprigorov) who ruled on the arrest and sentence of the oppositionist; the head of SIZO-5 "Vodnik" Dmitry Komnov, where the oppositionist is being held; DIRECTOR who acted as an expert in this processorganization "Independent Expert" Danila Mikheev.

In April, Great Britain imposed sanctions in the Kara-Murza case . Then, in addition to judges and investigators, the list included FSB officers who were “members of the task force that repeatedly followed Kara-Murza” when he was poisoned in 2015 and 2017, the British Foreign Office claimed. In March, the United States imposed its own restrictions on three people .

The Russian embassy in Washington called the sanctions interference in internal affairs, and Security Council deputy chairman Dmitry Medvedev said that Britain "was, is and will be our eternal enemy."

The Moscow City Court sentenced Kara-Murza to 25 years in a strict regime colony on charges of treason and fakes about the army on April 17. The oppositionist pleaded not guilty and stated that he was being persecuted for his political views. The United States, CANADA , Britain and the European Union criticized Moscow because of the verdict . The Foreign Ministry, in response, called the ambassadors of Western countries and expressed a strong protest to them, calling the statements about the court's decision interference in Russia's internal affairs.

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