Belarus: US charges four government officials with piracy over Ryanair plane diversion
by Associated Press from on (#5V86P)
When the plane landed authorities arrested journalist and activist Raman Pratasevich
US prosecutors have charged four Belarusian government officials with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year, allegedly claiming that there was a bomb threat in order to arrest an opposition journalist.
The charges, announced by federal prosecutors in New York, recounted how a regularly-scheduled passenger plane traveling between Athens, Greece, and Vilnius, Lithuania, on 23 May was diverted to Minsk in Belarus by air traffic control authorities in Belarus.
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