"Black List" will be added by 12 people and 29 organizations

An anonymous senior official in the EU said sanctions being considered targeted 29 firms and 12 people, nine of them involved in the judiciary.

European nations meanwhile are continuing talks on new sanctions against Belarus to force the authoritarian regime of President Alexander Lukashenko "to free and rehabilitate all political prisoners," said a senior EU official.

A source said sanctions being considered targeted 29 firms and 12 people, nine of them involved in the judiciary.

Some 230 people are already blacklisted over the continuing repression by Lukashenko's regime of civil society, the political opposition and the independent media.

AFP