Resolution 2542 (2024)1Provisional version

Sanctions against persons on the "Kara-Murza list"

Parliamentary Assembly

1. The Parliamentary Assembly pays tribute to Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza, anopposition politician, journalist, documentary filmmaker, historian and writer.

2. In April 2023, Mr Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison for criticising the Russian war ofaggression against Ukraine. He is subjected to particularly harsh prison conditions, which are putting his lifeand health at serious risk, particularly given the long-term effects of two earlier poisonings that came close tokilling him.

3. Vladimir Kara-Murza was handed down a particularly long prison sentence, compared to those metedout to other critics of the Russian war of aggression, most of whom have been sentenced to 5 to 10 years inprison. Mr Kara-Murza’s supporters consider the particularly harsh sentence as retaliation for his long-standing vocal support for “Magnitsky laws” on targeted sanctions against human rights violators.

4. “Magnitsky laws” such as those adopted by the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, numerouscentral and eastern European countries and not least by the European Union allow for imposing targetedsanctions against perpetrators of serious human rights violations who enjoy impunity in their own country,including police and State security officials. Vladimir Putin has made the elimination of “Magnitsky sanctions”against his supporters one of his foreign policy priorities.

5. The persons directly responsible for and participating in the persecution and ill-treatment of VladimirKara-Murza are well known. A detailed list can be found via this link “Kara-Murza list”. It includes prison staff,police officers, prosecutors and judges involved, in their respective roles, in the gross abuse of the Russianjustice system for the purpose of silencing Mr Kara-Murza.

6. These persons should be included in sanctions lists naming individuals, established under the existingand future Magnitsky-type sanctions laws.

7. The life of Vladimir Kara-Murza is threatened by the solitary confinement to which he is arbitrarilysubjected, despite his weakened state of health following two poisonings which he narrowly survived.

8. The tragic and sudden death in prison in February 2024 of Alexei Navalny, an outspoken Kremlin criticand anti-corruption activist, who had similarly been subject to and narrowly survived poisoning by a nerveagent, highlights the urgency of ensuring the release of Vladimir Kara-Murza from prison and of holding toaccount on a personal and individual basis all those involved in his persecution.

9. As a dual citizen of the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom, Mr Kara-Murza could be includedin any exchange of Russian spies held by Western States against political prisoners and other persons,including citizens of foreign States that are being held hostage by the Russian Federation.

10. The Assembly, therefore:

10.1. invites all States that have not yet adopted Magnitsky-type targeted sanctions laws to do sowithout further delay;

1. Assembly debate on 17 April 2024 (11th sitting) (see Doc. 15939, report of the Committee on Legal Affairs andHuman Rights, rapporteur: Mr Eerik-Niiles Kross). Text adopted by the Assembly on 17 April 2024 (11th sitting).

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