By Press Association 2021
Security use a sniffer dog to check the luggage of passengers on the Ryanair plane carrying opposition figure Roman Pratasevich
It is “very difficult to believe” the arrest of a prominent critic of the Belarus regime from a Ryanair flight could have taken place “without at least the acquiescence of the authorities in Moscow”, the Foreign Secretary has said.
Aircraft have been instructed to avoid Belarusian air space following the “state-sponsored hijack” of the flight on Sunday.
Dominic Raab said that although the situation was not yet clear, the relationship between Minsk and Moscow suggested Russian leaders may have been aware of the plans in advance.
By Press Association 2021
Security use a sniffer dog to check the luggage of passengers on the Ryanair plane carrying opposition figure Roman Pratasevich
It is “very difficult to believe” the arrest of a prominent critic of the Belarus regime from a Ryanair flight could have taken place “without at least the acquiescence of the authorities in Moscow”, the Foreign Secretary has said.
Aircraft have been instructed to avoid Belarusian air space following the “state-sponsored hijack” of the flight on Sunday.
Dominic Raab said that although the situation was not yet clear, the relationship between Minsk and Moscow suggested Russian leaders may have been aware of the plans in advance.
Roman Protasevich is a dissident and an activist, but above all a journalist
Belarus regime staged hijack to silence their most prominent critic
24 May 2021
BY MARTIN BRIGHT
There has rightly been international condemnation of the arrest of Roman Protasevich after his Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was diverted to Belarusian capital Minsk. It is of particular concern that the state hijacking of Flight FR4978 was carried out on the personal orders of President Alexander Lukashenko. His disgraceful “confession” on state TV comes straight from the authoritarian playbook.
The 26-year-old has been described in a single report on the BBC as a “Belarusian opposition journalist”, a “dissident” and an “activist”. This extraordinary young man is all these things and more. But it is important that the western media does not let the Belarus regime define the narrative.
By Press Association 2021
Security use a sniffer dog to check the luggage of passengers on the Ryanair plane carrying opposition figure Roman Pratasevich
It is “very difficult to believe” the arrest of a prominent critic of the Belarus regime from a Ryanair flight could have taken place “without at least the acquiescence of the authorities in Moscow”, the Foreign Secretary has said.
Aircraft have been instructed to avoid Belarusian air space following the “state-sponsored hijack” of the flight on Sunday.
Dominic Raab said that although the situation was not yet clear, the relationship between Minsk and Moscow suggested Russian leaders may have been aware of the plans in advance.