On Thursday, May 13, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center presented a classification of persons responsible for human rights violations in the occupied Crimea. On the basis of this classification, experts formed sanctions lists, which included 166 people.
The speakers were:
Eskender Bariiev – Head of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center, Head of the Department of Legal and Foreign Affairs of Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People;
Liudmyla Korotkykh – manager of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.
During the press conference, Eskender Bariiev stressed that all actions of the Russian Federation are criminal and grossly violate international law. Currently, the EU has imposed sanctions on 95 people and 23 legal entities, taking into account the situation in Eastern Ukraine and the illegal annexation of Crimea, and 180 people and 48 legal entities are included in the Consolidated List of UK Financial Sanctions under the Russia regime.
“Until now, the EU sanctions against Crimea have been applied only against persons involved in the violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity, and not against those involved in human rights violations in the occupied peninsula. This means that judges, investigators, prosecutors, employees The FSB and representatives of the security forces remain unpunished”,- he explained.
Liudmyla Korotkykh analyzed the practice of applying sanctions for human rights violations in the world, in accordance with the current sanction regimes of countries that have adopted analogous laws to the Magnitsky Act and the EU. So, in the United States, under the Global Magnitsky sanctions program, sanctions were imposed on 131 individuals and 117 legal entities, in the UK, under the sanctions regime Provisions on global human rights sanctions 2020 – against 72 individuals and 6 legal entities, in Canada in accordance with the law On justice in relation to victims of corrupt foreign officials – in relation to 70 individuals, in the European Union in accordance with the Council Decision on restrictive measures against serious violations and abuses of human rights – in relation to 15 individuals and 4 legal entities persons.
At the moment, the experts of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center have prepared a list of 166 people who violate human rights in the occupied Crimea. In addition, a classification of persons involved in the persecution of political prisoners, their relatives and Crimean activists was presented:
1. FSB officers (60 people)
2. Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (10 people)
3. Employees of the prosecutor's office (21 people)
4. Judges (28 people)
5. Court clerks (23 people)
6. Experts / doctors (15 people)
7. Employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service (5 people)
8. Attorneys by appointment (2 persons)
9. Other officials (ministries, Ministry of Emergency Situations, next, etc.) (2 people)
Based on this classification, the CTRC experts have developed a clickable diagram that will be permanently available on the organization's website and will reflect the current lists of persons involved in the persecution of political prisoners, their relatives and Crimean activists.