Minsk Hijacks Plane, Arrests Dissident Journalist

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This is amazingly brazen thuggish behavior from the regime in Belarus.

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A Belarusian journalist wanted by the government of Alexander Lukashenko was arrested after the plane he was traveling on made an unscheduled landing in Minsk on May 23 after what appears to have been a false bomb threat.

Raman Pratasevich was taken away by police shortly after the Ryanair flight, which was on a scheduled route from Athens to Vilnius, landed in the Belarusian capital.

No bomb was found, according to Belarussian media reports. No further details were immediately available. It was unclear who had reported the bomb threat. 

The headquarters of Belarusian opposition leader Svaitlana Tsikhanouskaya reported that the Ryanair flight crew received a message about a bomb on board the plane and that a MiG-29 military fighter was dispatched to escort the passenger jet to the airport in Minsk.

 

https://www.voanews.com/press-freedom/belarus-journalist-arrested-after-flight-diverted-minsk
 

 

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

Here's some commentary from Olga Lautman:

 

[NWBuck 8548]

Well, it was on a strange erotic journey that began in Milan....

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

 I have given birth multiple times, but I do believe sitting on an airplane with passengers (given the current temper tantrum climate) while going in circles would be more painful.