"The United States is still alarmed by the ongoing cruel repressions of Lukashenko's regime against peaceful demonstrators, pro-democratic activists and journalists," the statement of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Special alarm, as noted, causes the actions of February 16 against the human rights organization "Vasna", the Belarusian Association of Journalists and Independent Trade Union workers, as well as the sentence of journalists by journalists Catherine Andreva and Daria Chultsova.
USA
"Today, the US State Department has taken measures in accordance with the presidential proclamation of 8015 on introducing visa restrictions against 43 Belarusian persons responsible for undermining the Belarusian democracy, which makes them inevitable to the United States. These persons include: high-ranking jobs in the justice sector; Law enforcement officers and ordinary employees who detained and severely treated peaceful demonstrators; judges and prosecutors involved in sentencing peaceful demonstrators and journalists; And employees of the administration of universities who threatened students for participating in the peaceful protests, "the US Secretary of State noted in his statement.
Earlier, the United States introduced visa restrictions for another 66 persons who were recognized as responsible for the "undermining the Belarusian democracy". Among them, high-ranking officials, as well as citizens of Russia and Belarus, are involved, as noted in the report, to prevent the work of independent media and otherwise undermining the integrity of the media freedom in Belarus.
"The United States continues to support international efforts to independently investigate violations in elections in Belarus, violations of human rights related to elections, and reprisals followed by them," said in a statement.
Great Britain
The British government has published a new sanction list, including 27 surnames:
Igor Burmistrov, Sergey Kalinik, Oleg Karasova, Dmitry Kuryan, Pavel Light, Igor Lutsky, Vadim Prigar, Victor Stanislavk, Vitaly Stasyukvich, Gennady Bogdan, Vladimir Krachev, Natalya Kochanova, Artem Dunko, Ivan Eismont, Dmitry Shumilin, Andrey Swede, Alexander Turchin , Anatoly Sivak, Elena Litvina, Natalia Dedkov, Elena Zhivitsa, Victoria Shabunya, Alexander Petrash, Elena Nekrasova, Andrei Lagunovich, Yulia Goustir, Marina Fedorova.
Thus, the United Kingdom expanded its sanction list to 88 surnames, in addition, it is seven Belarusian companies.
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