Overview
- Listings focus on senior Rostov Federal Penitentiary Service officials, including those overseeing Pre-Trial Detention Centre No. 2, where detainees were beaten, starved and denied care or counsel.
- Reports cite forced confessions during interrogations and state that at least 15 detainees died, including Ukrainian investigative journalist Victoria Volodymyrivna Roshchyna.
- Members of the judiciary involved in the persecution of Moscow municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov are included after his three-year sentence for speaking against the war.
- Several individuals are named for politically motivated prosecutions of journalists and activists linked to Alexey Navalny and his foundation.
- Those listed face asset freezes, funding prohibitions for EU persons, and travel bans, with names now published in the EU’s Official Journal, bringing the regime’s totals to 62 individuals and one entity.