Announcing the sanctions in a statement, EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Police Josep Borrell said the EU was moving “from words to action” in its commitment to “eliminate all forms of violence of violence against women”.
He said the sanctions were “enhancing efforts to counter sexual and gender-based violence, to ensure that those responsible are fully accountable for their actions, and to combat impunity”.
The two Moscow police officers were sanctioned for their role in “arbitrary arrests and detentions as well as torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the context of the censorship and oppression led by the Russian authorities”.
On 6 March last year, a group of anti-war protesters were arrested and taken to Moscow’s Brateyevo police station.
There, at least 11 detainees – mostly young women – were subjected to physical abuse at the hands of a plainclothes police officer.
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