Canada has imposed sanctions on ten Belarusian individuals, including Nikolai Lukashenko, the 19-year-old son of President Alexander Lukashenko.
This move coincides with the fourth anniversary of what Canada deems a fraudulent presidential election in Belarus.
The Canadian Foreign Ministry announced that the sanctions also target six entities.
Among those sanctioned are Belarusian judges, Deputy Defense Minister Andrey Fedin, and Oleg Mishchenko, the first deputy chairman of the Defense Industry Committee.
The sanctions prohibit Canadian citizens and businesses from engaging with these individuals and bar them from entering Canada.
The sanctioned entities include Design Bureau Display, Minsk Research Institute of Instrument Engineering, Research Institute of Electronic Computers, Planar, Gomselmash, and the Minsk Electrotechnical Plant named after V.I. Kozlov.
Belarus’s most recent presidential election in August 2020 resulted in Alexander Lukashenko being declared the winner with 80.1% of the vote.
The opposition, led by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, contested the results, leading to widespread protests that were harshly suppressed by the government.
