The EU imposed sanctions against 10 Russian judges and security officials. The list includes FSIN employees involved in the murder of journalist Victoria Roshchina • The Insider • RIMA

The EU imposed sanctions against 10 Russian judges and security officials. The list includes FSIN employees involved in the murder of journalist Victoria Roshchina

The European Union has imposed sanctions against 10 Russian judges and security officials involved in repression and human rights violations in Russia. The list of those subject to restrictions was published in the official EU journal EUR-Lex. It included employees of the FSIN department for the Rostov region associated with the death of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchina in a pre-trial detention center.

We are talking about the head of the regional department of the FSIN Andrei Polyakov, the head of pre-trial detention center-2 of Taganrog Alexander Shtode and his deputies Andrei Mikhailichenko and Andrei Sapitsky. The justification for the sanctions states that these individuals are responsible for the torture and death in the detention center of at least 15 prisoners, including Roshchina.

Sanctions were also imposed against Timur Vakhrameev, judge of the Basmanny District Court of Moscow. The reason given was participation in the political persecution of journalists Dmitry Kolezev, Sergei Karelin, Konstantin Gabov and Kirill Matynov, lawyers Alexei Liptser and Vadim Kobzev, activist Lucy Stein and co-chairman of the Voice Grigory Melkonyants using articles about “undesirable organizations”, “extremism” and “discrediting the military”.

The list also included Deputy Chairman of the Military Court of Appeal Boris Kozhevnikov, judges Maxim Panin and Marina Ushakova, prosecutor Svetlana Rygalova and investigator Artemy Telminov. The EU magazine mentions that they approved the sentences and detention of political prisoners Alexey Gorinov, Polina Yevtushenko and Nikita Tushkanov.

Earlier, the Ukrainian publication Slidstvo.info published an investigation, from which it follows that Victoria Roshchina died not in Taganrog, but in pre-trial detention center-3 in the Perm region. Journalists claim that in September 2024, Roshchina was transferred to a detention center in Kizel, where she died on September 19. According to the testimony of a former Ukrainian prisoner of war, in the Kizel pre-trial detention center, prisoners were beaten until they lost consciousness, and women had their heads cut. Roshchina’s body, transferred to Ukraine in February 2025, showed signs of torture, and some internal organs were missing.