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Western countries announce fresh Belarus sanctions to mark 'flawed' 2020 election

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U.S. , UK and Canada unveil sweeping sanctions against Belarus on fourth anniversary of contested presidential election.

US Treasury Department sanctions 19 people, 14 companies and an airplane for evading existing sanctions and supporting Russia 's war efforts in Ukraine .

The landlocked Eastern European country saw the biggest protests in recent Belarusian history after the disputed 2020 vote, brutally shut down by strongman President Alexander Lukashenko 's government.

Four years on, nearly 1,400 remain in jail and thousands have fled the country.

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