Washington, United States: The US Treasury announced sanctions Friday (Saturday in Manila) on three Russians over their involvement in what it called a politically motivated prosecution of a prominent Kremlin critic.

The sanctions targeted a Russian judge, an investigator and an expert witness over their "involvement in serious human rights abuse" against opposition politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Treasury said in a statement.

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