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FCDO announces UK sanctions for heads of penal colony where Navalny died

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Published on: 21 February 2024

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LNB News 21/02/2024

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Issue Date: 21 February 2024

Published Date: 21 February 2024

Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Russian Federation

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The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has announced that the UK has sanctioned six individuals in charge of the IK-3 Arctic Penal Colony ‘Polar Wolf’ where Alexei Navalny died on 16 February 2024, following mistreatment by Russian authorities. The sanctioned individuals include Head, Colonel Vadim Konstantinovich Kalinin and Deputy Heads Lieutenant Colonels Sergey Nikolaevich Korzhov, Vasily Alexandrovich Vydrin, Vladimir Ivanovich Pilipchik, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Golyakov and Colonel Aleksandr Valerievich Obraztsov. Asset freezes and travels bans will apply to all six individuals and the UK has also called for Navalny’s body to be released to his family along with a ‘full and transparent investigation’.

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