Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Yuri Khadzimuratovich Karayev
Aliases
Yuri Khadzimuratavich Karaeu; Yuri Khadzimuratovich Karaeu; Yuri Khadzimuratavich Karaev; Yuri Khadzimuratovich Karaev; Yuri Khadzimuratavich Karayev; Yuri Khadzimuratovich Karayev
Position
Former Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus, Major-General of Militia
DoB
1966-06-21
Address
Belarus
Official reason
Yuri Karayev was the Minister of Internal Affairs in Belarus and was appointed in June 2019. In this role, Karayev had overall leadership and command of, and was therefore responsible for, the actions of the Internal Troops and Public Security Police in Minsk. Therefore, he is responsible for serious violations of the right not to be subject to CID...
Other Information
The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.
Date of listing
2020-09-29
Program information
Authority
UK
Program
The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020
Regime
UK horizontal
Target State
Human Rights
Measures
Asset freeze and making available provisions, Travel bans
Sanctions Portfolio
• The Regulations impose financial sanctions through a targeted asset freeze on designated persons and prohibitions on making funds or economic resources available. This involves the freezing of funds and economic resources (non-monetary assets, such as property or vehicles) of designated persons and ensuring that funds and economic resources are n...
Official Information
The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 put in place sanctions measures to deter, and provide accountability for, activities which, if carried out by or on behalf of a State within the territory of that State, would amount to a serious violation by that State of an individual’s: • right to life • right not to be subjected to torture or ...
Additional Details
Licensing and exception provisions are contained in Part 5 of the Regulations.
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