All the World Leaders Who Have Denounced Belarus So Far After Dissident Journalist Detained
On 5/25/21 at 8:18 PM EDT
Since the weekend, multiple world leaders have publicly denounced the Belarus government after it diverted a Ryanair plane to arrest dissident journalist Roman Protasevich.
On Monday, Protasevich, 26, appeared in a video shared to a pro-Belarus social media platform to state that he s cooperating with authorities. The attitude of the Ministry of Internal Affairs employees towards me has been as correct as possible and in compliance with the law, he said in the video, as translated by CNN. I continue to cooperate with the investigation and have confessed to organizing mass riots in the city of Minsk.
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Western powers prepared to pile sanctions on Belarus and cut off its aviation links on Monday (24 May), furious after it scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair aircraft and arrest a dissident journalist, an act one leader denounced as ‘state piracy’.
Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko sparked international outrage by dispatching a fighter jet Sunday to intercept a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying wanted reporter Roman Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega.
Belarus forced a plane carrying an opposition activist to land in its capital, provoking a furious outcry from world leaders who described it as an “act of state terrorism” ahead of an EU summit expected to toughen sanctions on Minsk.