British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government plans to impose human rights sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s Belarus as a punishment for the abuse of pro-democracy protesters.
“We are coordinating with the United States and Canada to prepare appropriate listings as a matter of urgency,” British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told Parliament on Thursday. “We will apply all the tools at our disposal to hold Lukashenko and his regime to account, and we call on him to engage in serious and credible dialogue with the opposition.”
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