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They include Ivan Eismant, Head of the Belarusian State Radio and Television Company (BTRK), Iharis Luckis, Minister of Information, Vladzimir Karanik, Governor of the Grodno Region, Natalia Kachanava, Speaker of the Upper House of Parliament, Attorney General Andrei Swede, Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Sivatak representatives of the power structures, judges.
Britain imposed sanctions on Belarus for human rights abuses on September 29. Then sanctions were imposed on President Aliaksandr Lukashenko and his son Viktar, the head of the presidential administration, Ihar Serheyenko, the then Interior Minister Yuriy Karayev and other officials.
The sanctions mean freezing the assets of these people under British jurisdiction and banning them from entering the country.
At the time, the US administration banned visas for 43 Belarusian citizens linked to the crackdown on protests in the country, the State Department said.
“Today, the State Department … imposed visa restrictions on 43 Belarusian citizens who are undermining democracy in their country. These people are no longer allowed to come to the United States,” the document said Thursday.
He notes that Washington remains concerned that the Belarusian government “continues to crack down on peaceful protesters and take action against democracy activists and journalists.”
According to the State Department, the restrictions are imposed on “high-ranking justice officials, police commanders, and ordinary security forces who have committed illegal actions against peaceful protesters.”
In addition, the list includes judges and prosecutors, heads of educational institutions, who “threatened students who participated in peaceful protests.”
The State Department recalled that the US administration had previously sanctioned 66 people who “undermined democracy in Belarus.”
In Belarus, protests have continued for more than half a year against the results of the presidential elections on August 9, which were declared the winners by Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994. The opposition and Western democracies view those elections as rigged. .
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