OTTAWA — Canada’s overseas affairs minister has introduced one other spherical of sanctions towards the Russian authorities, which she says are in response to final month’s dying of Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny and Russia’s “continued gross and systematic violations of human rights.”
Mélanie Joly introduced the sanctions in an announcement launched early Sunday morning, which says the measures can be imposed on six Russian senior officers and high-ranking workers of its prosecution, judicial and correctional providers. The assertion says they had been concerned within the violation of Navalny’s “human rights, his merciless punishment and in the end, his dying.
“Navalny, 47, was roundly thought-about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s biggest political foe.
Throughout a go to to Ukraine late final month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused Putin of “executing” Navalny, who died unexpectedly every week earlier within the Arctic penal colony the place he was serving a 19-year sentence.
The Kremlin has rejected allegations that Putin was concerned in Navalny’s dying, calling them “completely unfounded, insolent accusations in regards to the head of the Russian state.”
Joly says Russia should conduct a full and clear inquiry into the dying of Navalny, whom she referred to as “a voice of hope for the Russian individuals, in addition to a voice for freedom, justice, democracy and a greater future for Russia.”
Canada introduced sanctions on Feb. 23 towards 10 extra Russian officers and businessmen and 153 entities, in co-ordination with america and the UK.
