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Earlier this week, Belarusian authorities drew criticism for the dramatic arrest of Roman Protasevich, a 26-year-old journalist critical of the government

May 27, 2021 last updated 8:32 ET Belarusian police detain journalist and activist Roman Protasevich, center, in Minsk, Belarus, March 26, 2017 (AP photo by Sergei Grits). Dictators Like Lukashenko Must Pay a Cost for Transnational Repression When a Belarusian MiG-29 fighter jet forced a Ryanair flight filled with civilians to divert from its Athens-to-Vilnius route and land in Minsk on Sunday so that the regime could arrest one of its leading critics, it justifia...

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Diverting flight was huge mistake by Belarus regime, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya tells Euronews

Belarus’ authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has gone to extraordinary measures to cling to power in the face of the stiffest opposition to his rule in 26 years. Last weekend, this included the state-sanctioned hijacking of a passenger plane. After Ryanair flight 4978 en route from Athens to the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius was forced to land in Belarus, the 26-year-old journalist dissident Roman Protasevich was arrested. In a move not so far removed from Soviet-era practices, the g...

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The leader of an opposition party in Belarus was sentenced to seven years in prison on Tuesday, according to a human rights watchdog. Pavel Seviarynets, 44, co-founded the Belarusian Christian Democracy party. He was arrested in June last year after a picket in support of opposition presidential candidates. "On May 25, 2021, Judge Iryna Lanchava of the Mahilioŭ Regional Court sentenced Pavel Seviarynets to seven years in a medium-security penal colony," Viasna Human Rights Center wrote on its ...