EU Adds 18 People, 5 Entities to Human Rights Sanctions Regime
The EU last week sanctioned 18 people and five entities under its Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime due to their human rights violations in Afghanistan, South Sudan, the Central African Republic, Ukraine and Russia.
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Six of the people were sanctioned for "sexual and gender-based violence," including the acting Taliban ministers of education and justice and the acting Taliban chief justice of the Afghan Supreme Court. Others targeted for these reasons are a senior officer of the South Sudanese armed forces, an official of the Popular Front for the Rebirth of CAR and a commander of the Russian 30th Motorized Rifle Brigade.
The five entities and 12 other people were sanctioned for their human rights abuses in Russia, including parties responsible for misusing facial recognition technology for "massive arbitrary arrests in Russia" along with "politically motivated rulings against the opposition politicians." Included on the list is a minister in the city of Moscow, a deputy mayor, three firms supplying goods for the facial recognition systems and people responsible for running the facility where opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been imprisoned.