Alyaksandr Kanyuk

Alyaksandr Kanyuk, 2018

Alyaksandr Uladzimiravich Kanyuk (Belarusian: Аляксандр Уладзіміравіч Канюк, Russian: Александр Владимирович Конюк, romanized: Aleksandr Vladimirovich Konyuk) (born 1960) is a Belarusian jurist and statesman, former Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus (2011–2020).

Kanyuk graduated from the Belarusian State University in 1982. He was a military judge for a long time, and a Supreme Court of Belarus judge since 2009 before becoming the Prosecutor General.^[1]

After the disputed Belarusian presidential elections of 2020 he was sanctioned in relation to human rights violations in Belarus by the European Union.^[2]

In 2020 he was appointed ambassador to Armenia.^[3]

References

1. "Александр Конюк назначен генеральным прокурором вместо Григория Василевича". Naviny.by (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2017-04-27.
2. 40 беларускіх чыноўнікаў, якія трапілі пад санкцыі Эўразьвязу. СЬПІС
3. Конюк и Равков отправлены послами в Армению и Азербайджан