Journalist Snatched from #Flight Faces #Belarus ‘Death Penalty’

Source: https://www.thedailybeast.com/journalist-snatched-from-flight-faces-belarus-death-penalty

A Belarusian MIG-29 #military jet forced a Ryanair passenger plane heading from Athens to Vilnius to land in #Minsk #airport, where #police arrested one of the passengers, a skinny young man. A bomb alert was the official reason for diverting the plane, but nobody in Belarusian opposition had doubts about the real reason behind the special operation: the arrest of 26-year old activist and journalist Roman Protasevich, the founder of a popular #NEXTA #Telegram channel read by more than four million people.

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