Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko ordered a Ryanair flight carrying a key opposition blogger and headed for Lithuania to land in the Belarusian capital Minsk on Sunday and detained him on arrival, officials and rights activists said.» Subscribe to MSNBC:
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Belarus President Orders Plane To Land To Detain Opposition Blogger
Why is this guy still in power -.-
He’s a dictator, thats what they do
Agreed. He lost the election. He should step down and let the country’s elected President take over.
because that’s what he does to show power, i am scared what will he do to that journalist now?
This is hijacking and kidnapping
ну да, когда тебе изначально говорят ложь, и повторяют это каждый день, то ты начинаешь верить и тебе начинает казаться что твои мысли – это твоё собственное мнение 🙂
Where is Assange?
But it is ok to force down a diplomatic plane with Bolivias president Morales because you thought Edward Snowden was on it?
Hypocrites
Trumper bot?
This guy is scary AF and most people have never even heard of him.
Not enough oil there or the DNCbots here would be screaming their fake outrage over this and hollering for more war
@Harvey Manfredsenjenson 🙄
He used to be the leader of Belarus, but he lost an election and now he’s just a dictator who refuses to step down.
So the KGB hijacked a plane going from Greece to Lithuania, to arrest a keyboard warrior.
It used to be a knock on the door in the middle of the night, and getting thrown in a van.
It’s only a few months since Putin Novichok’d Navalny on a plane…
@Harvey Manfredsenjenson Belarus literally has a KGB
@Nathan 556 Give it a rest. You know as well as I do the OP was trying to pretend this is Russia and Putin
It’s been over half a year.
Lukashenko is Putins boy! I think even Putin thinks this operation was insanely stupid. 🙄
they still do knock on ur door and take u, todays’ craziness was to show the rest of the country what he can do to people who doesn’t agree with him, that’s very sad
Wait…no. This was a hijacking of a civilian aircraft you understand???
Yes, we understand. Do you think anyone will do anything about it.?….. anything other than talk.?
I’m guessing…. Not.
Well someone did that to a presidential plane and no one said anything
This is the kind of authoritarian abuse of power that the GQP can only WISH they could get away with.
Party of “law and order” they self-proclaimed! 😅😂🤣
Yet the democrats have perfected it .
@Waldemar Marchesi .
Only if you could get therapy for that condition .
But it is ok to force down a diplomatic plane with Bolivias president Morales because you thought Edward Snowden was on it?
Hypocrites
Coming to a state near you!
Any president who dresses in military garb has to be a bad guy!
Every country and NATO need to get this guy home and sanction Belarus to the highest. This is outrageous
Julian Assange the most famous journalist who has had the biggest story in the last decade is currently facing prosecution from the USA government. Not one of you clowns have a single story talking about it but you’re for press freedom. You people are hyppcritical clowns.
But it is ok to force down a diplomatic plane with Bolivias president Morales because you thought Edward Snowden was on it?
Hypocrites
Very simple remedy: freeze all Belarus assets abroad, immediately – and block all traffic coming into and out of the country.
they already did that after the corrupted elections (freezing the assets that is)
Putin with Mustache and
Hopefully a Wife too. 🤷♀️
with a mustache?
When you think you’re safe no one can touch you then bummmmm lukashenko bring you back home 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣what a world we live😂😂😂trust me 🇺🇸 could have done the same
It’s called HIJACKING !!!
May 23, 2021 (The New York Times). A Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius, Lithuania, carrying about 170 passengers, including 26-year-old journalist Roman Protasevich, flew over Belarus when Belarusian air traffic controllers notified its pilots of a “potential security threat on board” and sent the plane to Minsk – reported Irish airline.
Lukashenko, who is often called “the last dictator of Europe”, personally ordered a MiG-29 fighter jet (armed with air-to-air missiles) to escort the Ryanair plane to Minsk airport, his press service reported. According to the statement, Lukashenka gave an “unequivocal order” to “force the plane to turn around and land.”
This is unacceptable! What can we do as citizens please? I’ll do what it takes, I’ll convince people to do the same, any ideas?
Have a glass of red wine and watch something funny then go to bed that’s the best thing to do..
What more do you expect from the filth of man. As they see the defenders of Democracy turn their backs on their own people.
(This will get deleted in like 30 seconds – read fast) Next time he flies, someone should reroute his plane to a foreign airport.
So basically Lukashenko is saying “The press is the enemy of the people”. Hmm, who does that remind you of?
وفق الله تعالى سياده الرئيس لوكشينكو لتحقيق العدل بشكل ودي وسلمي
They forgot the part where Lukashenko ordered an armed MIG up to force the commercial jet to turn east to Minsk. 😳