Foreign ministers of the European Union agreed on new sanctions associated to the dying of the Russian opposition chief Alexey Navalny in an Arctic jail final month.

The ministers authorized the bundle throughout a gathering in Brussels, EU overseas coverage chief Josep Borrell informed reporters Monday. The restrictive measures embrace some 30 individuals and two entities, in response to an earlier draft of the proposal seen by Bloomberg.

The determination comes after Vladimir Putin was declared the winner of a presidential election whose end result was pre-determined. Putin prolonged his quarter-century rule after profitable 87.3% of the vote with no severe challenger within the election.

Among the proposed listings are a number of jail and authorities officers and judges, in addition to the IK-3 and IK-6 penal colonies, in response to the draft. The EU authorized a modest bundle of sanctions final month geared toward Moscow, its thirteenth since Russia invaded Ukraine. Those measures centered on implementing present restrictions.

Navalny’s allies had referred to as on folks to protest Putin’s election by turning up at midday on Sunday. Long strains fashioned at the moment outdoors some polling stations, together with in Moscow and St. Petersburg, in a symbolic present of defiance amid the harshest Kremlin crackdown on dissent in a long time.

Navalny rose to prominence throughout huge pro-democracy protest in Russia in 2011-2012. The Kremlin critic was barred from operating in a 2018 presidential poll due to a fraud conviction that the US and EU criticized as politically motivated.

He fell unwell in August 2020 on a flight to Moscow after assembly with native activists within the Siberian metropolis of Tomsk. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a world watchdog, confirmed {that a} nerve agent from the banned Novichok group had been used within the poisoning.

The opposition chief was transferred to a distant Arctic jail colony, IK-3, in late December from a jail outdoors Moscow. In his final publish on X, previously Twitter, on Feb. 14, he reported that he’d been sentenced to fifteen days in a punishment cell for the fourth time since he’d arrived there.

Separately, the EU additionally authorized new sanctions on Hamas leaders and violent Israeli settlers, Borrell mentioned, with out offering extra particulars.