EU treft maatregelen tegen Wit-Rusland (en)

The Council adopted legislation today to strengthen the restrictive measures imposed on the Belarus regime, following the recent sentences on the former presidential candidate Sannikaw and on a number of members of the political opposition and civil society.

It placed a further 13 individuals on the list of designated persons subject to travel restrictions and an assets freeze,

The implementing decision and the regulation, together with the list of persons subject to the measures, will be published in the Official Journal of the EU on 24 May 2011.