U.S. imposes sanctions on Russian police officer for torturing anti-war protesters
Photo: U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken (Alex Edelman-Pool/Getty Images)
The United States imposed sanctions today, on December 8, against a Russian police officer who tortured demonstrators opposing Russia's war against Ukraine, according to the U.S. Department of State.
The sanctions were imposed on Ivan Ryabov, an employee of the police department in Brateyevo, Moscow. Washington accused him of gross human rights violations, specifically torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment and punishment of Russian demonstrators who marched against Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In addition to the sanctions against Ryabov, the U.S. also imposed sanctions on several individuals from Zimbabwe, Uganda, Syria, Sudan, South Sudan, China, Liberia, Iran, Indonesia, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and Afghanistan.
U.S. sanctions against Russia
Yesterday, it was reported that the United States and the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on two Russians associated with the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).
The United States also imposed sanctions on a network of defense procurement that supplied military electronics to the Russian Federation.
Recently, Bloomberg reported that a bill was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives that aims to ban the import of enriched Russian uranium into the United States.
