The US State Department said Thursday said it placed visa bans on "multiple" Belarusians for attacks on dissidents, including a runner who the government tried to forcibly repatriate from the Tokyo Olympics last year.
The department did not identify the individuals blacklisted or give a precise number, but said they had been involved in "serious, extraterritorial counter-dissident activity" on behalf of the regime of strongman Alexander Lukashenko, AFP said.
