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
Individuals
Political leadership, propaganda
Law enforcement
Judiciary
Businesspeople and their immediate relatives
Companies
Other
EU sanctions list following 2006 presidential elections
Senior state leadership
Election organization
State security services
Judiciary
EU sanctions list preceding 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.
EU sanctions list following 23 September 2012 elections
This list of sanctioned individuals was published on 15 October 2012, following the 2012 Belarusian parliamentary election.
University rectors
State propaganda
Businesspeople
Judges and state prosecution
State security services
Remaining EU sanctions list after 2016
Sanctions after the disputed 2020 presidential election
After the disputed Belarusian presidential elections of 2020, several western countries announced sanctions against Belarusian officials. Latvia has been the first country to do so on 31 August, joined soon by Lithuania and Estonia. The list included President Lukashenko and all Central Election Committee members as well as other senior state official and security forces commanders.
The Baltic states were later followed by Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union, Switzerland and New Zealand. These countries have sanctioned various numbers of Belarusian officials "for their roles in the fraudulent August 9, 2020 Belarus presidential election or the subsequent violent crackdown on peaceful protesters" or under similar motivations.
More sanctions against Belarusian individuals and entities followed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine; some of them were introduced due to Belarus's role in it. The European Union, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada expanded their existing sanction packages, while Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Ukraine introduced their sanctions. Some of the invasion-related sanctions against Belarusian individuals and entities are listed in the 'Russian' sanctions lists of these countries.