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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...

Three countries Ireland, Lithuania, and Greece are likely to file a complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) regarding the incident of the arrest of a co-founder of a Poland-based Telegram channel that had a role the post-election protests in Belarus after his flight had to make an emergency landing in Minsk, Pierre dArgent, an international law professor at the UCLouvain university in Belgium, told Sputnik

Top stories from the Russian press on Tuesday, May 25th © AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis Kommersant: West slaps new sanctions on Belarus after Ryanair plane’s forced landing The forced landing in Minsk of a Vilnius-bound Ryanair plane that left Greece on May 23 due to a bomb threat, which later turned out to be a false alarm, was the main issue discussed at the EU summit that kicked off in Brussels on Monday evening. The forced landing and the arrest of opposition figure Roman Protasevich, who was among the passengers, showed that it is possible that Belarusian-EU relations can go from bad to...

Für ihn provozierte Minsk einen internationalen Zwischenfall: Roman Protassewitsch. Wer ist der Blogger – und wo ist er jetzt?

Hijacking Western complacency May 25,2021 - Last updated at May 25,2021 WARSAW — Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has once again demonstrated the lengths to which he will go to crack down on his opponents. On May 23, he deployed a MiG-29 fighter jet to force down a commercial flight, which was traveling from Athens to Vilnius, shortly before it left Belarusian airspace. The purpose was to apprehend Roman Protasevich, the former editor-in-chief of the Belarusian opposition publication and social-media channel Nexta, who was arrested after the plane landed in Minsk. Why a regime that...