Airlines shun Belarus and Nato slams ‘state hijacking’
There is concern the journalist arrested after the jetliner was forced down has been tortured
25 May 2021 - 17:59
Kyiv/Vilnius — Airlines shunned Belarus’s air space on Tuesday and Belarusian planes could soon be banned from Europe, potentially isolating the landlocked country apart from its border with Russia after it forced down a jetliner and arrested a dissident journalist.
A video released overnight showed 26-year-old Roman Protasevich confessing to having organised antigovernment demonstrations. On Sunday, he was pulled off the passenger plane that was forced to land in the Belarusian capital Minsk...
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