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The size of the list is irrelevant. What matters is the precedent. Restricting banking or travel based on political assessments, without criminal conviction or
by submeta 10mo ago
The size of the list is irrelevant. What matters is the precedent. Restricting banking or travel based on political assessments, without criminal conviction or transparent judicial review, is a serious breach of the rule of law. Simply asserting “good reasons” is not an argument.
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- realusername 10mo agoAll the people in this list are criminals of various kind, money laundrers and some of them even terrorists. You should ask yourself the opposite, why people supporting Russian views in the EU often are from a criminal background?
- submeta 10mo agoLabeling everyone on a sanctions list as a “criminal” or “terrorist” dodges the core issue, which is the erosion of due process. EU sanctions are administrative measures, not criminal convictions: people are listed by executive decision, often on the basis of political and security assessments, without indictment, trial, or a judgment by an independent court. That means being sanctioned does not logically equal “proven criminal”; it means the person has been designated by a political body that, by design, operates outside the safeguards of criminal procedure
- realusername 10mo agoFine, the day it affects real people, I'll also push for a change. I doubt it will ever be though. For now excuse me but I won't cry for the poor money laundrers of the Russian mafia and their yachts. This list is public as well, feel free to consult it.