On December 9, on the eve of International Human Rights Day, the UK government released a new sanctions list for individuals who have most severely violated fundamental rights in recent years. Among the thirty people on the list from all over the world, there are a number of people associated with the occupied Crimea. First of all, these are the aggressor’s punishers, involved in torturing and fabricating the “cases” of the Crimean activists Olexander Kostenko, Oleg Sentsov and Olexander Kolchenko.
In particular, sanctions were imposed on the criminal “deputy head of the military investigation department” from Simferopol, Valentin Oparin, who fabricated the “case” of Sentsov and Kolchenko, as well as on the Rostov prosecutor Oleg Tkachenko, who “accused” Sentsov. Sanctions were also imposed against traitors to the motherland, Andrei Tishenin and Artur Shambazov, who in 2014 transferred to the “service in the FSB”, who kidnapped and tortured Kostenko in 2015.
As British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley said on this occasion, that “it is our duty to promote free and open societies around the world. Today our sanctions go further to expose those behind the heinous violations of our most fundamental rights to account. We are committed to using every lever at our disposal to secure a future of freedom over fear.”
Despite the apparently “targeted” nature of the new British sanctions, they indicate that civilized countries do not forget about the criminal policy of violence and terror on the occupied peninsula.
