Belarus military forces Ryanair Jet landing as reporter arrested
The Peninsula
Belarusian authorities scrambled a fighter jet to force a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius to land in Minsk, where authorities detained a journalist on board.
Raman Pratasevich, the former editor-in-chief of the most popular Telegram news channel in Belarus, was arrested in the Minsk airport on Sunday after the plane landed, according to the Minsk-based human rights center Viasna, which is not officially registered by the country’s authorities. Interior Ministry spokeswoman Olga Chemodanova declined to comment.
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