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Europe moves to isolate Belarus after Minsk forces airliner to land and detains dissident Michael Birnbaum, Isabelle Khurshudyan © AP/AP In this photo provided by ONLINER.BY, security use a sniffer dog to check the luggage of passengers on the Ryanair plane with registration number SP-RSM, carrying opposition figure Raman Pratasevich which was traveling from Athens to Vilnius and was diverted to Minsk after a bomb threat, in Minsk International airport, Sunday, May 23, 2021, in BelarusWestern leaders decried the diversion of a plane to Belarus in order to arrest an oppositi...

Pressure Mounts On Belarus Over Forced Landing To Arrest Dissident By Max DELANY 05/24/21 AT 2:36 PM European countries moved to isolate Belarus on Monday by cutting air ties after it provoked an international outcry by forcing a commercial airliner to land so it could arrest an opposition activist. EU leaders meeting in Brussels eyed proposals to stop Belarus' state airline flying to the bloc and prevent European carriers from using the country's airspace, after several nations started closing air routes. The Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius carrying dissident journalist Roman Prota...

The recent incident of Ryanair emergency landing in Minsk might cause a transit ban on the part of the West

Belarus opposition blogger Roman Protasevich, 26, was detained after his Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was diverted to Minsk by a Soviet-era warplane on the pretext of a bomb threat.

Belarus authorities said the plane had to make an emergency landing in Minsk. Minsk, Belarus: Authorities in Belarus on Monday insisted they acted legally when they diverted a passenger plane carrying an opposition activist, accusing the West of making unfounded claims for political reasons. The government of strongman Alexander Lukashenko provoked global fury on Sunday by pulling Ryanair flight FR4978 from its Athens-to-Vilnius route and arresting one of the passengers, opposition journalist and blogger Roman Protasevich, in Minsk. Western leaders called it an "act of state terrorism" and t...