Now imagine the military plane belongs to a country ruled by a dictator, and you’re a journalist and pro-democracy activist in exile who has been critically documenting the dictator’s tyranny.
It sounds like a movie thriller, but it’s the harrowing ordeal described by passengers of the Ryanair Athens-to-Vilnius flight on Sunday. And it did not end well for journalist Roman Protasevich. The plane was forced to land on orders of President Alexander Lukashenko, the long-time dictator of Belarus, whose security forces immediately arrested Protasevich.
This cannot stand.
Recent years have seen…
