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The plane landed at Minsk airport on Sunday afternoon. After flying from Athens to Vilnius, closing in on Lithuanian airspace, he was forced to deviate from the route.
The plane was piloted by Roman Protasevich, leader of the Belarusian opposition and founder of the Nexta information channel. When Liner landed in Minsk, he was arrested.
After more than 7 hours of waiting, the remaining passengers on the flight to Vilnius from Minsk airport took off at around 8:50 p.m.
The ocean liner landed at Vilnius airport at 9.26 pm
“We must show solidarity”
Dozens of people carrying “I / we Romanas Protasevičius” signs are standing at the entrance gate, where the passengers of the plane taken by Belarus are to arrive in Lithuania.
Some Belarusians who arrived at the airport fled the country after the Lukashenko regime dealt with the opposition last year.
One of them is Aliaksandr Glačkov, a 36-year-old man from the city of Baranovichi.
He called the arrest of R. Protasevičius a crime.
“I don’t think the application of Belarusian law works for people who think differently from the ideology of the state,” he added. 15 minutes said the participant of the picket.
“We need to show solidarity so that we do not break one by one,” he added.
Belarusian opposition and human rights activists say the plane that flew to Vilnius from Athens on Sunday landed at the initiative of the regime specifically to arrest the Belarusian journalist, founder of the Nexta news channel and editor-in-chief R. Protasevičius.
According to A. Glačkov, it is not correct to accuse the authorities of both R. Protasevičius and other members of the Belarusian opposition of extremism.
“It just came to our attention then. These are people who want development and prosperity for their country, not what is happening to it now,” said the Belarusian.
Interview with Franak Viačorka, close associate of Vilnius-based opposition leader Sviatlan Cichanouskaya 15 minutes warned that from now on nyou can no longer be sure flying over BelarusAnother target of the regime may be S. Cichanouskaya herself. The opposition calls on the international community to impose new sanctions on Minsk and consider banning flights over Belarus.
Western leaders on Sunday demanded the release of a Belarusian journalist and warned that new sanctions could be imposed on Minsk. EU leaders can discuss the issue at Monday’s summit.
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