{"id":50824,"date":"2026-05-20T15:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/eu-agrees-to-extend-sanctions-against-russia-for-human-rights-violations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:11:20","slug":"eu-agrees-to-extend-sanctions-against-russia-for-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/eu-agrees-to-extend-sanctions-against-russia-for-human-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"EU agrees to extend sanctions against Russia for human rights violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Union ambassadors have agreed to extend sanctions against the Russian Federation for human rights violations for another year. This was reported by Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty&#039;s Europe editor Rikard Jozwiak on X, according to UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>&quot;EU ambassadors have just extended for one year the sanctions on around 70 individuals from Russia responsible for human rights violations worldwide,&quot; Jozwiak wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that EU ambassadors agreed to expand the scope of sanctions against Iran to be able to target individuals and entities responsible for obstructing freedom of navigation.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>The administration of US President Donald Trump has introduced sanctions against an Iranian exchange office and &quot;shadow fleet&quot; vessels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union ambassadors have agreed to extend sanctions against the Russian Federation for human rights violations for another year. This was reported by Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty&#039;s Europe editor Rikard Jozwiak on X, according to UNN. Details &quot;EU ambassadors have just extended for one year the sanctions on around 70 individuals from Russia responsible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}