On Friday 22 March, the EU Council adopted restrictive measures against 33 individuals and two entities connected with the sudden death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, in a strict prison colony, under the EU’s human rights sanctions regime.
The new listings include the prison colonies where Alexei Navalny had been held since June 2022, the IK-6 corrective colony and the IK-3 maximum security corrective colony. According to the Council, these colonies are known to exert...