The European Union on Monday targeted 28 additional people linked to the ongoing repression of the public in Belarus with new sanctions. A statement from the EU member states criticized the “deteriorating human rights situation in Belarus” and condemned the Belarusian regime’s continuing persecution of the country’s society. The new EU sanctions on the Belarusian regime of President Alexander Lukashenko come ahead of the fourth anniversary of his crackdown on protests in opposition to his re-election in August 2020, denounced by the EU and others as fraudulent. Among the new persons targeted a…