The European Union has imposed sanctions on eight individuals, all implicated in Russia’s persecution of Crimean Tatars and other Ukrainians in occupied Crimea. The list includes four ‘judges’, the heads of the FSB and of the central body of the Investigative Committee in occupied Crimea, as well as an investigator and Russian prosecutor. This is a welcome move, but hopefully only the beginning as the list of deserving candidates is considerably longer. It is important that all those who take part in political and religious persecution understand that this will carry consequences.
