SUBSCRIBE to EIR Daily Alert Service G7 Ministers Want Belarus To Free Pratasevic, Who Fought in Ukraine with Nazi Azov Battalion May 27, 2021 (EIRNS) The foreign ministers of the G7 nations today issued a joint communiqué demanding “the immediate and unconditional release of Roman Pratasevic, as well as all other journalists and political prisoners held in Belarus.” So concerned are they over this matter, that they announced additional sanctions against Belarus if the authorities don’t promptly comply. As we documented yesterday, Pratasevic has the profile of a long-term Western intelligence asset, deployed to different countries in the region as strategic needs require. Within that deployment, it is worth emphasizing his deep ties to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion in Ukraine. Ivan Tertel, the head of the Belarus security agency, KGB, stated:
Slovak journalists: We stand by our Belarusan colleagues Free media are a guarantee of freedom and democracy. 24. máj 2021 o 14:34 SME.SK Aby ste mohli odoberať príspevky tohto autora, musíte byť prihlásený: Prihlásiť | Registrovať Lietadlo Ryanair na letisku v Minsku. (Zdroj: TASR/AP) Písmo:A Our colleague Roman Pratasevic was forcibly removed from an airplane under the pretence of a bomb scare. The Belarusan dictator Alexander Lukashenka wished his arrest so much, that he ordered a fighter jet to divert the commercial flight on route to Vilnius to Minsk. Pratasevic now faces the threat of torture, imprisonment, and possible death penalty. Only because he wanted to write truthfully about Belarus.
Belarus diverts Ryanair plane to arrest activist journalist A Ryanair jet was en route to Lithuania when it was forced to land in Belarus, where authorities arrested Raman Pratasevich, a blogger critical of Lukashenko s government. EU officials slammed the unprecedented move. The journalist was reportedly en route from Greece to Lithuania when the plane he was on was forced to land in Belarus A Belarusian journalist and opposition activist, Raman Pratasevich, was held at an airport in Minsk after his Lithuania-bound flight was forced to land on Sunday. Opposition figures swiftly criticized the move, which they said was a bid by the government of longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko to clamp down on critical voices.
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Journalist Raman Pratasevich might face the death penalty after Belarusian authorities forced his plane to land in Minsk. A passenger on the flight described Pratasevich's reaction.