UK to consider sanctions over Alexey Navalny's death
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British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said in an interview with Sky News that London is considering individual sanctions against people involved in the death of opposition activist Alexey Navalny.
"We look at whether there are individual people that are responsible and whether there are individual measures and actions we can take," Cameron said on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
According to the foreign minister, the British authorities do not announce the sanctions in advance, so he cannot give more details on this issue.
A representative of the Russian Embassy in London, who was summoned to the UK Foreign Ministry in connection with Navalny's demise, expressed displeasure to the British side at the interference in Russia's internal affairs.
Navalny had been in custody since early 2021 after a court commuted his suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case to a real term of 3.5 years. In March 2022, he was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of fraud and contempt of court. Earlier on 16 February, the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug announced the death of Alexey Navalny in the colony.
According to the foreign minister, the British authorities do not announce the sanctions in advance, so he cannot give more details on this issue.
A representative of the Russian Embassy in London, who was summoned to the UK Foreign Ministry in connection with Navalny's demise, expressed displeasure to the British side at the interference in Russia's internal affairs.
Navalny had been in custody since early 2021 after a court commuted his suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case to a real term of 3.5 years. In March 2022, he was sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of fraud and contempt of court. Earlier on 16 February, the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug announced the death of Alexey Navalny in the colony.
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