{"id":48745,"date":"2021-02-22T11:05:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/22\/eu-must-be-united-and-determined-on-russia-sanctions-says-josep-borrell-alexi-navalny"},"modified":"2021-02-22T17:57:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:57:59","slug":"eu-must-be-united-and-determined-on-russia-sanctions-says-borrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/22\/eu-must-be-united-and-determined-on-russia-sanctions-says-borrell\/","title":{"rendered":"EU must be &#8216;united and determined&#8217; on Russia sanctions, says Borrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Member states agree to impose measures under so-called Magnitsky act over arrest of opposition leader<\/p><p>Russians responsible for the \u201carrest, sentencing and persecution\u201d of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be hit by EU sanctions in the first use of the so-called European Magnitsky act.<\/p><p>Josep Borrell, the EU\u2019s high representative for foreign affairs, said the 27 member states had agreed to impose \u201crestrictive measures\u201d under powers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/27\/eu-to-use-magnitsky-style-law-to-impose-sanctions-on-human-rights-abusers\">adopted by the bloc earlier<\/a> to target people behind human rights abuses.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/11\/eu-chiefs-moscow-humiliation-is-sign-of-bloc-disunity-on-russia-say-experts\">EU chief's Moscow humiliation is sign of bloc disunity on Russia, say experts<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/22\/eu-must-be-united-and-determined-on-russia-sanctions-says-josep-borrell-alexi-navalny\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/22\/eu-must-be-united-and-determined-on-russia-sanctions-says-josep-borrell-alexi-navalny\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member states agree to impose measures under so-called Magnitsky act over arrest of opposition leaderRussians responsible for the \u201carrest, sentencing and persecution\u201d of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be hit by EU sanctions in the first use &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8722,471,2944,1322,6,24,3089,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49387,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48745\/revisions\/49387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}