4 Belarus officials charged with air piracy

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Source: Associated Press

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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. prosecutors charged four Belarusian government officials on Thursday with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year to arrest an opposition journalist, using a ruse that there was a bomb threat.

The charges, announced by federal prosecutors in New York, recounted how a regularly-scheduled passenger plane traveling between Athens, Greece, and Vilnius, Lithuania, on May 23 was diverted to Minsk, Belarus by air traffic control authorities in Belarus.

“Since the dawn of powered flight, countries around the world have cooperated to keep passenger airplanes safe. The defendants shattered those standards by diverting an airplane to further the improper purpose of repressing dissent and free speech,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a news release announcing the charges.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-belarus-alexander-lukashenko-manhattan-new-york-e37f96ce617f1b537ad5b6eab20505a0

[AZLD4Candidate]

1. What do you expect from Europe's only two dictators?

[Willis88]

2. For the law experts - How can the US bring charges if this Irish aircraft was never over USA?

Is it because they were US citizens on board that were endangered by this grotesque act of air piracy?

[IronLionZion]

3. international law, treaty violations, human rights, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryanair_Flight_4978

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Putin's buddy

Vlad is getting mighty lonely now that TFG is out of office.