Canada imposed new sanctions against Russia

According to the Reuters news agency, in a statement on Sunday, Melanie Joly, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, said: According to the new round of sanctions, 6 people, including senior officials and high-ranking judicial staff, The prosecutor’s office and the affairs of Russian prisons are targeted.

Earlier, the eight European Union countries in a letter to Josep Burrell, the head of the foreign policy of this institution, demanded sanctions against the Russian judicial authorities.

This letter was signed by the foreign ministers of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Sweden and Romania, and the Netherlands, France, Ireland and Denmark also supported it.

This letter states: “The death of Alexei Navalny is a sign of systematic and accelerated repression in Russia.” This issue requires collective action. We believe that considering this situation, there is a strong justification for imposing separate sanctions against Russia”.

Navalny, a well-known critic of the Russian government, who was serving his sentence in a prison in the Yamalo-Nenets region of Russia, died on February 25, 1402, and was buried in Borisov Cemetery in Moscow on March 11.

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Ryanovsti news agency reported that he felt unwell after a walk and immediately lost consciousness. According to this report, the medical staff of the prison intervened to revive him and an emergency medical team was called; They tried to revive Navalny, but failed. Finally, emergency doctors confirmed his death. Judicial sources announced that the reasons for Navalny’s death are being investigated.

Navalani, who was sentenced to a total of 11 years and 6 months in prison for the crime of “fraud and disobeying judicial orders” in previous courts, and his organization was imprisoned as an illegal “extremist organization”, on August 13, 1402, at the end of another trial He was sentenced to 19 years in prison.

Navalny and his supporters believed that this case, like the previous accusations, was politically motivated and its purpose was to keep him away from politics for a longer period of time.

Source: IRNA