List of people and organizations sanctioned in relation to human rights violations in Belarus

Since the 1990s, Belarus has been actively criticized by the United States, the European Union, the OSCE and the United Nations for human rights violations and electoral fraud. Various Belarusian officials, businesspeople with links to the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko and their companies have been subject to various sanctions involving asset freeze and travel bans.

US sanctions Source: Individuals

Political leadership, propaganda Name Position Main accusations RemarksPresident of BelarusLidia YermoshinaChair of the Central Election Commission of BelarusCentral figure behind massive centralized election fraud in BelarusNatalia PetkevichFirst Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Belarus in 2004–2010Viktor LukashenkoAssistant/Aide to the President in National Security Affairs. Son of President Alexander LukashenkoAlexander RadkovFormer Minister of Education, now leader of the Belaya Rus movement and Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vladimir RusakevichDeputy Head of the Presidential Administration Alexander ZimovskyFormer Head of the National State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus, adviser on propaganda

Law enforcement Name Position Main accusations RemarksYuri PodobedFormer commander of Minsk riot police unitViolence against demonstrators in the late 1990s and early 2000sUladzimir NavumauMinister of Internal Affairs of Belarus in 2000–2009Responsible for repressions against opposition activists during the 2004 referendum campaign, 2006 presidential elections, etc.Viktor SheimanFormer Secretary of the Security Council, special adviser to president LukashenkaAccused of the disappearance of opposition leaders in 1999–2000Head of the KGB of Belarus in 2005 - 2007, including during the 2006 Belarusian presidential electionDmitri PavlichenkoAccused of involvement into the disappearance of opposition leader Viktar Hanchar in 1999

Judiciary Name Position Main accusations RemarksAleh SlizheuskiJustice Minister of BelarusFormal justification of political repressions and electoral fraudViktar HalavanauFormer Minister of JusticeFormal justification of political repressions and electoral fraud

Businesspeople and their immediate relatives Name Position Main accusations Remarks

Companies Name RemarksBelneftekhimincluding Belneftekhim USA Inc.Polotsk-SteklovoloknoGrodno AzotLakokraskaBelarusian Oil Trade HouseNaftanGrodno KhimvoloknoBelshina

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EU sanctions in 2004 In September 2004, the Council of the European Union adopted sanctions against four Belarusian officials who were accused of involvement in four cases of unsolved disappearances.

+ Name Position Date of birth Place of birth Yury Sivakov Minister of Tourism and Sports of Belarus 5 August 1946 Sakhalin Region Viktor Sheiman Prosecutor General of Belarus 26 May 1958 Grodno Region Dmitry Pavlichenko Officer of the special forces of Belarus 1966 Vitebsk Vladimir Naumov Minister of the Interior of Belarus 1956

In December the list was expanded to include individuals responsible for conduct of elections and referendum in Belarus on 17 October 2004 and those who are responsible for human rights violations in the handling of demonstrators + Name Position Date of birth Place of birth Lidia Yermoshina Chairwoman of the Central Election Commission of Belarus 29 January 1953 Slutsk, Minsk Region Yuri Podobed Lieutenant-Colonel of Militia, Unit for Special Purposes (OMON), Ministry of Internal Affairs 5 March 1962 Slutsk, Minsk Region

EU sanctions list following 2006 presidential elections Source: Senior state leadership NamePositionAlexander LukashenkoPresident of BelarusGennady NevyglasHead of the President's AdministrationNatalia PetkevichDeputy Head of President's administrationAnatoly RubinovDeputy Head in charge of media and ideology, PAOleg ProleskovskyAide and Head of the Main Ideological department, PAAlexander RadkovMinister of EducationVladimir RusakevichMinister of InformationAlexander ZimovskyMember of the Upper House of the Parliament; Head of the national state teleradio companyVladimir KonoplevChairman of the Lower House of the ParliamentMikalay CharhinetsChairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Upper HouseSyarhei KastsyanChairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Lower HouseMikhail OrdaMember of the Upper House, leader of the BRSMLeonid KozikHead of the Federation of Trade Unions

Election organization NamePositionLydia YermoshinaChairwoman of the Central Election Commission of BelarusNikolai LozovikDeputy Head of the Central Election Commission of BelarusKoleda Alexandr MikhailovichChairman of the Elections Commission of the Brest RegionMikhasev Vladimir IlyichChairman of the CEC of the Gomel RegionLuchina Leonid AleksandrovichChairman of the CEC of the Grodno RegionIhar KarpenkaChairman of the CEC of MinskKurlovich Vladimir AnatolievichChairman of the CEC of the Minsk RegionMetelitsa Nikolai TimofeevichChairman of the CEC of the Mogilev RegionPishchulenok Mikhail VasilievichChairman of the CEC of the Vitebsk Region

State security services NamePositionStepan SukhorenkoChairman of KGBVasily DementeiFirst Deputy, KGBViktor SheymanState Secretary of the Security CouncilDmitry PavlichenkoHead of the Special Response Group at the Ministry of the Interior (SOBR)Uladzimir NavumauMinister of the InteriorYuri PodobedLieutenant-Colonel of Militia, Unit for Special Purposes (OMON), Ministry of Internal Affairs

Judiciary NamePositionViktar HalavanauMinister of JusticePetr MiklashevichProsecutor GeneralOleg SlizhevskyHead of the Division of Social organisations, parties and NGOs, Ministry of JusticeAleksandr KharitonConsultant of the Division of Social organisations, parties and NGOs of the Ministry of JusticeEvgeny SmirnovFirst Deputy of the Chairman of the Economic CourtNadezhda ReutskayaJudge of the Moscow district of MinskNikolai TrubnikovJudge of the Partizanskiy district of MinskNikolai KupriyanovDeputy Prosecutor General On October 23, 2006, the list was expanded with the addition of two more judges and two prosecutors.

On November 10, 2008, the Council of the European Union suspended travel sanctions for all officials except those involved in disappearances and the head of the Central Election Commission, Lidia Yermoshina. EU sanctions list following the 2010 Presidential elections The list of sanctioned individuals was consolidated on 25 October 2010. The presidential election was held on 19 December that year.

Following the election and forceful dispersal of protesters, travel sanctions that had been suspended in 2008 were reintroduced on 31 January 2011, covering 157 people in total. The list was gradually expanded, reaching 243 individuals and 32 companies by 26 April 2012.

EU sanctions list following 23 September 2012 elections Source:

This list of sanctioned individuals was published on 15 October 2012, following the 2012 Belarusian parliamentary election.

University rectors Name Position Reasons for listing RemarksSiarhei AblameikaRector of the Belarusian State UniversityPolitically motivated expulsions of studentsTamara AlpeyevaRector of International Humanitarian-Economic InstitutePolitically motivated expulsions of studentsMikhail BaturaRector of Belarusian State University of Informatics and RadioelectronicsPolitically motivated expulsions of studentsMechyslau ChasnouskiRector of Brest State UniversityPolitically motivated expulsions of studentsPiotr KukharchykRector of Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical UniversityPolitically motivated expulsions of students

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