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UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab announced that a total of eight people will be barred from entering and their funds will be frozen.
In addition to the sanctions imposed on Lukashenko and his son Viktor, the head of the Belarusian presidential administration, Ihar Siarheyenko, the Minister of the Interior, Yuriy Karayev, the Deputy Minister of the Interior, Aliaksandr Barsukov, the Commander of the Armed Forces Yuriy Nazaranka, and the WBO MP Chazalbek
These restrictive measures were reportedly agreed to with Canada and adopted pursuant to an approved amendment to the law, anologically to the American Magnitsky Act.
“Alexander Lukashenko’s regime is responsible for a series of human rights violations by the opposition, the media and the people of Belarus following the rigged elections. Despite repeated calls from the international community, it refused to initiate a dialogue with the opposition, but has resorted to even more brutal repression, “said the Briton in a press release.
“Today the UK and Canada have sent a clear message by imposing sanctions on the brutal and dishonest regime of Alexander Lukashenko,” Raab said, adding that “we will not recognize the results of the rigged elections.”
“We will force those responsible for the violence against the people of Belarus to respond and we will fight for our democratic values and human rights,” he said.
Canada’s Foreign Ministry, for its part, has announced sanctions against 11 Belarusian officials, including Lukashenko and his son Viktor.
“Canada will not remain silent until the Belarusian government continues to systematically violate human rights and shows no signs of a sincere desire to find an outlet for dialogue with opposition groups,” Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said in a statement.
“Canada and the UK are working together to make these sanctions more effective and to condemn together [Baltarusijoje] situation ”, emphasized the minister.
The Canadian list includes the same eight officials listed in the United Kingdom as Ivan Kubrakov, the head of the Minsk militia, Vadim Ipataw, the vice president of the Central Electoral Commission of Belarus, Alena Dmuchaila, the secretary of the commission, and Lidzia Yermoshyna, president of the commission.
The MFA report says that these people are prohibited from doing business in Canada and their accounts are frozen. Residents of Canada and their citizens residing abroad are prohibited from doing business with such individuals and providing them with financing and other services.
Sanctions are imposed under the “Special Economic Measures Law,” the report states.
Protests against the results of the presidential elections on August 9 are held in Belarus for the second consecutive month. Lukashenko, who has ruled the country since 1994, has been declared the winner. The opposition and western countries consider that these elections are rigged.
Lukashenko’s inauguration took place in Minsk last Wednesday. This ceremony was unexpected for Belarusian journalists and observers and was not announced in advance.
Shortly after the ceremony, a number of countries declared that they did not recognize Lukashenko as the legitimate president of Belarus.
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