He was arrested and, in a video released by Belarusian authorities on Monday evening, appeared to admit he was involved in organising mass protests in Minsk last year. COERCIVE FORCED LANDING
Mr Ryan said that Ireland and European leaders have condemned the “coercive forced landing” of the plane.
He added that the “unacceptable actions” by authorities in Belarus endangered the lives of the passengers and crew onboard.
He told the ITF annual conference of transport ministers: “We call for an transparent and independent investigation by the International Civil Aviation Organisation into the incident.
“I think we need a full probe, a thorough investigation.
HSE cyber attack: Some services likely to resume in 48 hours May take weeks for full system restoration, but technicians happy with decryption key
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin: “So far we haven’t seen any significant dumping of data . . . If anybody comes across any data, if you see it don’t share it.” Photograph: Daragh Mc Sweeney
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There is expected to be “steady progress” in restoring Health Service Executive (HSE) systems and services in the coming days following the devastating cyber attack earlier this month.
Minister for Communications Eamon Ryan, Mr Donnell, Minister for Justice Heather Humphreys and Minister of State for Communications Ossian Smyth met on Saturday.
The threat by hackers to publish stolen data on Monday s being taken seriously by the Government. Mr Smyth told RTE news âWe are going to prepare in case it does happenâ.
Gardaà are concerned a protracted wave of scam attacks could follow if data potentially relating to millions of people, which may have been stolen in an attack on the HSE, is published or sold on to other criminals.
Earlier on Saturday HSE chief executive Paul Reid said the process for unlocking network remains âfraught with riskâ .