EU Sanctions 2 Leaders of Crimean Detention Centers
The Council of the European Union on Sept. 5 sanctioned two people for human rights abuses in detention centers in Crimea. Vadim Bulgakov and Aleksei Pikin are the head and deputy head, respectively, of the Directorate of the Russian Federal…
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Penal Enforcement Service for Crimea and the City of Sevastopol, and are responsible for the prisoners, including political prisoners, the council said. The council's announcement said the "EU does not recognise and continues to condemn the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by the Russian Federation as a violation of international law," a move Russia made in 2014.