Brazen Ryanair Kidnapping Signals to Dissidents EU Isn’t Safe
- Belarusian activists living in Europe wonder who will be next
- The EU has banned Belarus flyovers after reporter seized
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Exiled critics of Alexander Lukashenko have realized their adopted European homes aren’t necessarily safe after the Belarus strongman forced a commercial jet to land in order to arrest a dissident journalist this week.
Nine months after fleeing Belarus, opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya saw how Lukashenko brazenly defied international law to arrest Raman Pratasevich, a reporter despised by the regime who like her had sought refuge in Lithuania.