Belarusian authorities forced an airliner to land at Minsk airport on Sunday to detain a journalist who was on board a Ryanair plane.
Raman Pratasevich, a journalist and vocal critic of Alexander Lukashenko’s administration, was detained at the Minsk airport, said the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
His original flight route was from Athens to Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, before it was suddenly diverted to Minsk, the capital of Belarus. It was escorted there by a Soviet-era MiG-29 fighter jet. On its landing, authorities took Mr Pratasevich…
