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A co-founder of the Nexta Telegram channel said, that he continues to cooperate with the investigation Detention center No. 1© Valery Sharifulin/TASS MINSK, May 24. /TASS/. Roman Protasevich, a co-founder of the Nexta Telegram channel deemed as extremist in Belarus, who was detained at Minsk’s airport on Sunday, is giving a confession, according to a video aired by the Belarus 1 TV channel on Monday. "I am kept at detention center No. 1. I continue to cooperate with the investigation and I am giving a confession concerning the organization of mass riots [after the presidential elections]...

Detained Belarus Activist Roman Protasevich Filmed 'Confessing' Roman Protasevich being detained at a protest in 2017. AP/TASS Arrested Belarusian opposition blogger Roman Protasevich, who was on the diverted Ryanair flight, says he is cooperating and admitting to charges of organizing protests in a video circulated by state TV channels on Monday. The passenger flight from Athens to Vilnius was diverted while in Belarusian airspace on Sunday over a supposed bomb threat, prompting a global outcry to Minsk's forced landing of the aircraft. "I am in De...

At a crunch summit, the EU also demanded the immediate release of Roman Protasevich, an opposition blogger who has been described as the 'private enemy' of Alexander Lukashenko.

A Ryanair passenger flight was forced to land after which an opposition activist was arrested. Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday defended a decision by Belarusian authorities to divert a Ryanair passenger flight carrying an opposition activist who was arrested. The flight from Athens to Vilnius was forced to land in the Belarus capital Minsk Sunday on the orders of strongman Alexander Lukashenko following a supposed bomb scare. One of the flight's passengers, wanted opposition activist Roman Protasevich, was detained in Minsk airport. Western leaders called the inciden...

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney has said the reports are “extremely worrying”.