by Tyler Durden
Monday, May 24, 2021 - 12:15 PM
As we reported last night, it didn t take long for a flurry of condemnations from both EU and US officials in the hours after the Ryanair incident over Belarus, with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich s immediate release. Multiple EU leaders described Sunday s detention of Pratasevich after his commercial aircraft with 170 international passengers on board (including Americans, apparently) was intercepted en route between Greece and Lithuania and a Belarusian warplane forced it to land in Minsk where the dissident journalist was arrested, as tantamount to hijacking a civilian plane and “state piracy.
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