The shocking detention of a journalist in flight
The arrest of Belarusian journalist and activist Roman Protasevich on Sunday should not have come as a surprise to anyone following events in the former Soviet republic. We at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have been documenting for a year the arrests, imprisonment, beatings and other violations of reporters who were persecuted in that country simply for doing their job.
Yet even knowing what we did of the situation, the action to divert a Ryanair Athens-Vilnius flight to the Belarus capital of Minsk -- where Protasevich was detained -- is shocking.
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