- Programme
- Situation in Ukraine
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Legal basis
- Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), Art. 15 para. 1 and 4 (Financial sanctions) and art. 29 para. 1 (Travel ban), annexe 8
- Stated grounds
- Valentina Kamynina is a judge of the Kyiv District Court of the city of Simferopol, Crimea. She has been appointed by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. She systematically prosecutes citizens of Ukraine for political reasons, abusing anti-extremism and anti-terrorism legislation. She has repeatedly confirmed and extended the arrest of Crimean Tatars on charges of belonging to organisations banned in the Russian Federation. Kamynina extended the arrest of a Crimean Tatar, journalist and media coordinator of the human rights association “Crimean Solidarity” Nariman Memedeminov, as well as a military pensioner and former captain of the Ukrainian ship “Slavutich” Alexey Kiselyov. Those who were arrested and sentenced by Kamynina were repeatedly recognised as political prisoners. Therefore, Valentina Kamynina is supporting and implementing actions and policies which undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026