Belarusian leader Lukashenko was admittedly behind the operation
The Government of Belarus Sunday forced a Ryanair Boeing 737 en route from Athens, Greece to Vilnius, Lituania which was flying over their territory to land and make the arrest of 26-year-old dissident journalist Roman Protasevich possible.
Protasevich, journalist and founder of the
Nexta news channel, on Telegram, was among the passengers bound for the Lithuanian capital when a Mig-29 fighter jet from the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko plus a bomb threat led the pilots to land at Minsk airport where the arrest took place.
The journalist has been accused of being involved “in terrorist activities and could be sentenced to 15 years in prison, it was reported.
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