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The moment Belarusian dissident journalist Roman Protasevich knew his plane was being ‘hijacked’ by his own government

When the captain of Ryanair flight 4978 from Athens to Lithuania’s capital Vilnius announced the plane was being diverted to Minsk, capital of neighbouring Belarus, one passenger reacted immediately.
Key points:
- The flight was diverted while it was in Belarus’s airspace
- Roman Protasevich,…
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