Alyaksandr Kanyuk
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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]