The European Union has imposed sanctions against Russian prison officials responsible for the death of the Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna.

Roshchyna was reporting on Russia’s systematic policy of extrajudicial detention and torture in occupied parts of Ukraine , before falling victim to it herself. She died at the age of 27 last year after more than a year in Russian captivity. Her body was returned earlier this year with some of the internal organs missing.

Roshchyna’s death in captivity was investigated earlier this year by the Viktoriia Project , a consortium including the Guardian, Ukrainska Pravda and other reporting partners.

Sources close to the official Ukrainian investigation disclosed to the Viktoriia Project that examination of Roshchyna’s body after its rep

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