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EU cuts air links with Belarus over forced plane landing, US weighs options Issued on: A frame from the prison video showing Belarusian journalist and opposition figure Roman Protasevitch. © Twitter 5 min EU leaders have cut air links with Belarus, as the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko paraded a dissident journalist arrested after his flight was forced to land in Minsk. US President Joe Biden has described the forced...

Three countries Ireland, Lithuania, and Greece are likely to file a complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) regarding the incident of the arrest of a co-founder of a Poland-based Telegram channel that had a role the post-election protests in Belarus after his flight had to make an emergency landing in Minsk, Pierre dArgent, an international law professor at the UCLouvain university in Belgium, told Sputnik

Top stories from the Russian press on Tuesday, May 25th © AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis Kommersant: West slaps new sanctions on Belarus after Ryanair plane’s forced landing The forced landing in Minsk of a Vilnius-bound Ryanair plane that left Greece on May 23 due to a bomb threat, which later turned out to be a false alarm, was the main issue discussed at the EU summit that kicked off in Brussels on Monday evening. The forced landing and the arrest of opposition figure Roman Protasevich, who ...

Für ihn provozierte Minsk einen internationalen Zwischenfall: Roman Protassewitsch. Wer ist der Blogger – und wo ist er jetzt?

Hijacking Western complacency May 25,2021 - Last updated at May 25,2021 WARSAW — Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has once again demonstrated the lengths to which he will go to crack down on his opponents. On May 23, he deployed a MiG-29 fighter jet to force down a commercial flight, which was traveling from Athens to Vilnius, shortly before it left Belarusian airspace. The purpose was to apprehend Roman Protasevich, the former editor-in-chief of the Belarusian opposition publication...

Global outrage as Belarus ‘hijacks’ flight to arrest opposition activist 1 published : 24 May 2021 at 11:49 1 A Belarusian dog handler checks luggage from a Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS (flight number FR4978) parked on Minsk International Airports apron in Minsk, on May 23, 2021. - Belarus forced a passenger plane carrying a wanted opposition activist to divert and land in its capital, provoking a furious outcry from world leaders who de...

Share on Twitter Authorities in Belarus have insisted they acted legally when they diverted a passenger plane carrying an opposition activist and have accused the West of making unfounded claims for political reasons. The government of strongman Alexander Lukashenko provoked global fury on Sunday by pulling Ryanair flight FR4978 from its Athens-to-Vilnius route and arresting one of the passengers, opposition journalist and blogger Roman Protasevich, in Minsk. READ MORE Western lead...

Russia Defends Belarus Over Plane Diversion May 24, 2021 Ryanair flight FR4978 from Athens-to-Vilnius was diverted to Minsk. ONLINER.BY / AFP Russian officials have defended Belarus’ use of a military jet to divert a passenger plane carrying a dissident, an act Western leaders have called "state terrorism" and that may spark tougher sanctions against Minsk. State Duma deputy Leonid Kalashnikov, who chairs the Duma’s commit...

Global outrage after Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to detain journalist Issued on: 24/05/2021 - 04:43 Opposition blogger and activist Roman Protasevich, who is accused of participating in an unsanctioned protest at the Kuropaty preserve, arrives for a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus April 10, 2017. Picture taken April 10, 2017. © REUTERS/Stringer 8 min Belarus forced a passenger plane carrying a wanted opposition activist to div...

24-05-2021 ) A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 lands in the Vilnius International Airport, in Vilnius, Lithuania, 23 May 2021. As Ryanair spokeswoman said, the aircraft carrying scores of passengers from Athens to Vilnius was diverted to the Belarusian capital under the escort of a Mig-29 fighter jet after its crew was notified by authorities in Minsk of a potential security threat on board. A Ryanair flight from Athens, Greece to Vilnius, Lithuania, with Belarus opposition journalist Roman Pro...