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Telegram became a cornerstone of last summer’s anti-government protests.

It was a clear act of state-sponsored terrorism. An Irish passenger plane from the Irish budget airline Ryan Air, while on its way from Athens to Vilnius, was forced to land in the Belarusian capital Minsk on May 23 only minutes before it was due to leave Belarus’ airspace. Flimsy claims by Belarusian air traffic controller that a bomb was on board quickly turned out to be a hoax cooked up by the dictatorial regime of the country’s long time leader Alexander Lukashenko. In reality, Lukashenko wanted Belarusian journalist and opposition activist Roman Protasevic (Raman Pratasevich in Bela...

Telegram became a cornerstone of last summer’s anti-government protests.

What happened to Ryanair Flight 4978 this weekend sounds like something out of a pulpy spy novel. The plane, traveling nonstop from Greece to Lithuania, was diverted to Minsk, Belarus, after pilots got a message from air traffic control that there was a bomb on board. When the plane landed, Belarusian authorities pulled off a 26-year-old Belarusian dissident, Roman Protasevich, whom President Alexander Lukashenko had been trying to capture for years. His 23-year-old girlfriend was detained too. In other words, this was a state-sponsored skyjacking. Advertisement Lukashenko has been in charge ...

What happened in Belarus?And why a reporter got off the plane and escaped and was arrested As civilian planes fled the airspace, Belarus’s isolation deepened, the European Union enacted new sanctions and officials expressed concern about the welfare of opposition journalists. Roman Protasevich was arrested on Sunday because he was removed from a plane transferred to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in what the West calls a state-sponsored hijacking. The plane flew from Greece to Lithuania. Take a quick look at how we got here: Why does Belarus have objections? The President of Belarus, Alexa...