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The European Union is urging member nations to close their airspace and airports to all Belarusian airlines after Belarus force

Belarus forced a Ryanair flight carrying a wanted opposition activist to land in the capital Minsk on May 23, provoking a furious outcry from world leaders who described it as a “hijacking” and an “act of state terrorism”.

EU cuts air links with Belarus over forced plane landing, US weighs options Issued on: A frame from the prison video showing Belarusian journalist and opposition figure Roman Protasevitch. © Twitter 5 min EU leaders have cut air links with Belarus, as the regime of President Alexander Lukashenko paraded a dissident journalist arrested after his flight was forced to land in Minsk. US President Joe Biden has described the forced diversion of the plane and subsequent arrest of Roman Protasevich as "a direct affront to internati...

State-sponsored air piracy: Belarus dictator tests the international community Belarus dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka sparked international uproar on May 23 by forcing an EU airliner to land in Minsk and detaining a dissident Belarusian journalist among the plane's passengers. (Andrei Stasevich/BelTA/TASS via REUTERS) European leaders agreed to a series of sanctions measures against Belarus on May 24, the day after the East European nation sparked uproar by forcing an EU passenger jet to land in Minsk and abducting a high-profile dissident passenger. The rapid EU decision to press forward wit...

By suppressing opposition through harsh police actions and keeping much of the country's economy under state control, Lukashenko has made Belarus a neo-Soviet outlier, wary of its thriving NATO and European Union neighbours. People attend an opposition rally in Minsk in September 2020 to protest the presidential election results and the inauguration of Lukashenko.(Reuters) Who is Roman Protasevich? The 26-year-old dissident journalist has been an anti-Lukashenko voice since he was a teen. His protest activities got him expelled from school and later from the Belarusian State Universi...