BRUSSELS: The European Union on Monday added 28 officials and "propagandists" in Belarus to a sanctions blacklist over the repression of opponents of leader Alexander Lukashenko. The 27-nation bloc has imposed repeated rounds of sanctions on the Belarusian government since the authorities launched a crackdown on protests against Lukashenko's rule in 2020.
The measures take the number of individuals sanctioned over the clampdown in the former Soviet country to 261, with the list already including Lukashenko and his family members. "These regime propagandists willingly provided the Belarusian public with false information about repression perpetrated by the state authorities," the EU said. — AFP
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