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According to the Treasury Department, criminal measures have now been taken against the Central Election Commission of Belarus, the Counter-Terrorism Unit of the State Security Committee (KGB), as well as the Minsk militia and OMON special forces of the Ministry inland.
Sanctions were also announced for the Vice Minister of the Interior, Henadzis Kazakevičius.
“The people of Belarus constantly seek the peaceful exercise of their fundamental democratic rights, and the government is repeatedly responding with violent repression,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a press release.
He assured that the new sanctions would help “bring to justice the people and organizations that carry out these unacceptable actions.”
According to the Treasury Department, all assets of entities included in the US blacklist are frozen. Americans are prohibited from doing business with them without the permission of the US government.
For the fifth month in a row, Belarus has faced massive protests over the August 9 presidential election, which was declared the winner by Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western democracies view those elections as rigged.
The EU and the US do not recognize Lukashenko’s legitimate President of Belarus and have previously imposed sanctions on his regime.
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