Friday, June 4, 2021

EU Bans Belarus Airlines And Reroutes Flights Around Its Airspace

A Ryanair jet that carried opposition figure Roman Protasevich was diverted to Minsk, Belarus, after a bomb threat. Protasevich, who ran a channel on a messaging app used to organize demonstrations against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, was arrested after the plane landed.

The move, affecting about 400 flights per day, is a reaction to the shocking arrest of a journalist last month after Belarussian officials forced his plane Greece-to-Lithuania flight to land in Minsk.

(Image credit: Mindaugas Kulbis/AP)

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