US charges four Belarus officials with aircraft piracy over flight diversion
Prosecutors say the men reported a fake bomb threat to detain an opposition journalist in Minsk.
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Prosecutors say the men reported a fake bomb threat to detain an opposition journalist in Minsk.
The charges announced by the US Department of Justice escalate the global uproar over the May 23, 2021, forced landing in Minsk of the Ryanair flight and detention of the journalist Roman Protasevich and his Russian girlfriend
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Four Belarusian government officials have been charged in the United States with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last May to arrest a dissident Belarusian journalist who was on board, U.S. prosecutors said on Thursday.
Prosecutors say the men reported a fake bomb threat to detain an opposition journalist in Minsk.
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A Ryanair aircraft, which was carrying Belarusian opposition blogger and activist Roman Protasevich and diverted to Belarus, wh