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West condemns plane s diversion to arrest Belarus journalist | News

BRUSSELS (AP) — Western outrage grew and the European Union threatened more sanctions Monday over the forced diversion of a plane to Belarus in order to arrest an opposition journalist

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Piracy, hijacking, terrorism : West condemns airliner s diversion to arrest Belarus journalist

BRUSSELS Western outrage grew and the European Union threatened more sanctions Monday over the forced diversion of a plane to Belarus in order to arrest an opposition journalist in a dramatic gambit that some said amounted to state terrorism or sheer piracy. Ryanair said Belarusian flight controllers told the crew there was a bomb threat against the plane as it was crossing through the country s airspace and ordered it to land in the capital of Minsk. A Belarusian MiG-29 fighter jet was scrambled to escort the plane - in a brazen show of force by President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled with an iron fist for over a quarter-century.

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West condemns plane s diversion to arrest Belarus journalist | Chester and District Standard

Ryanair said Belarusian flight controllers told the crew there was a bomb threat against the plane as it was crossing through the country’s…

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US, EU Condemn Belarus Over Hijacking of Ryanair Plane to Arrest Opposition Journalist – NBC Bay Area

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the diversion “shocking” and appealed for Pratasevich s release. EU leaders were particularly forceful in their condemnation of the arrest and the move against the plane, which was flying between two of the bloc’s member nations and was being operated by an airline based in Ireland, also a member. The bloc summoned Belarus ambassador “to condemn the inadmissible step of the Belarusian authorities” and said in a statement the arrest was yet again “another blatant attempt to silence all opposition voices in the country. President Gitanas Nauseda of Lithuania urged the EU to take “clear actions in order to change the pattern of behavior of this very dangerous regime,” and said a previously planned EU summit on Monday would assess whether to close its airspace to Belarus carriers, declare Belarusian airspace as unsafe and expand sanctions against Lukashenko s government.

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