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Ales Bialiatski: No grounds for lifting EU sanctions from Belarusian officials

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Ales Bialiatski: No grounds for lifting EU sanctions from Belarusian officials
Ales Bialiatski

Sanctions must remain in force until the dispersal of the 2010 post-election protests is investigated.

Ales Bialiatski, the head of Viasna human rights centre, does not see any grounds for reducing the EU blacklist, Viasna's website reports.

“I think sanctions against particular officials must remain in force until all issues relating to human rights violations in Belarus, for which there were put on the blacklist, are solved. The issues include the events of 2010: the brutal dispersal of the rally in Minsk, arrests and following repression against many citizens,” the human rights defender said.

It became known today that the EU Council took a decision on July 31 to lift sanctions from 24 Belarusian officials involved in repression and persecution of civil society representatives. The blacklist now includes about 200 persons. The previous EU blacklist was reduced on October 31, 2014, when restrictions were lifted from 24 persons.

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