European Parliament strongly condemns the recent wave of detentions targeting family members of political prisoners in Belarus, and urges the illegitimate Lukashenka's regime to cease repression, especially gender-based persecutions. Members call on the EU to respond by imposing stronger sanctions on the Lukashenka regime and to support the documentation of human rights violations in Belarus. In this regards, Parliament urges the Commission and Member States to back turning the OHCHR examination of the human rights situation in Belarus into a fully independent investigative mechanism.
Due to the lack of transparency, freedom and fairness in Belarus, the EP calls for the EU, its Member States, and the international community not to recognise the results of the parliamentary and local 'elections' to take place on 25 February.
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