To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if his Department will implement further sanctions on Belarus for the imprisonment of Ales Bialatski and Andrzej Poczobut.
Answered on
20 March 2023
The UK Government is appalled by the brutal and ongoing repression that the Lukashenko regime conducts against its own people. We condemn the politically motivated sentencing and continued detention of Ales Bialiatski and Andrzej Poczobut. The UK Government keeps all sanctions regimes under review, however we do not speculate on future designations as to do so could reduce their impact.
Since 2020, the UK has imposed over 120 sanctions designations in response to the human rights violations and repression of civil society and democratic opposition that followed the flawed presidential election result in Belarus.