He will also propose Navalny’s name to the European sanctions regime against people who commit human rights violations.
The European Union this Monday began sanctioning those responsible for the death of Russian opponent Alexei Navalny, who was jailed last Friday, and will propose to strengthen the European sanctions regime against people who commit systematic human rights violations to mention his name. the death of Navani and the arrest of more than 400 protesters during rallies across Russia in memory of the dissident, the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy, Joseph Borrellhas said the bloc should send a “message of support to the Russian opposition” while boosting aid to Ukraine, almost two years after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s military offensive.
“To pay tribute to Navalny and honor his memory, I will propose to ministers to rename our human rights sanctions regime after his name, so that his name will be forever written in the EU’s work in defense of human rights” , he announced. before the meeting of EU foreign ministers in which Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the Russian opponent, is participating. As for the imposition of sanctions against those responsible for Navalni’s death, the head of European diplomacy assumes that this will be studied in the coming days. “The Member States will undoubtedly propose sanctions. Against those responsible, the ultimately responsible one is Putin himself, but we can also go back to the institutional structure of the prison system in Russia,” he stated.
In this sense, numerous European foreign ministers have called for the imposition of sanctions against Russia over Navalny’s death.
Source: EITB
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