Switzerland SECO
ActiveFinancial sanctions; Travel ban- Programme
- Belarus
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Legal basis
- Ordinance of 16 March 2022 on measures against Belarus (SR 946.231.116.9), article 12 (Financial sanctions) and 25 para. 1 (Travelban), annexe 13
- Stated grounds
- Vadzim Murashka is a Belarusian national and head of the correctional institution Penal Colony No 13, a maximum-security prison where a number of political prisoners are held, including Nikolai Statkevich, Vitaly Melnik and Sergei Vereshkhagin. Prisoners of Colony No 13 face inhumane conditions and are subject to abuses. He is therefore responsible for serious violations of human rights and repression of civil society.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026