U.S. State Department Expresses Distrust Of Lukashenko Regime

Because of the repressions.

The US State Department has published an annual report on the human rights situation in the world. It includes country reports for each of the states.

According to the report on Belarus, the human rights situation in our country has not improved over the past year, and the government "has not taken credible steps" to punish those responsible for repression.

"During the year, there have been no significant changes in the human rights situation in Belarus," the authors of the report said.

They also stressed that the government of Belarus "did not take credible steps to identify and punish officials who could commit human rights violations, and the authorities at all levels generally acted with impunity on the instructions of the authoritarian leader Aliaksandr Lukashenka."

In general, there are "serious human rights problems" in our country, which have become known from "credible reports". Among other things, these are torture and ill-treatment in law enforcement agencies and places of detention, arbitrary arrests and detentions, political prisoners, censorship, restrictions on freedom of opinion and the media, corruption in the government, gender-based violence, human trafficking and other violations.