From left to right, jailed Belarus journalist Roman Protasevich, Chairman of the Investigative Committee Dmitry Gora, Deputy Chairman of the State Border Committee Andrey Filatov, Chief of the Air Force and Air Defense Command of the Armed Forces of Belarus, Major-General Igor Golub, Representative of the State Aviation Committee Artyom Sikorsky and Press Secretary of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Anatoly Glaz attend a news conference about the emergency landing in Minsk of the Ryanair passenger plane, in Minsk, Belarus. In May, an Irish airline Ryanair traveling from Greece to Lithuania made an emergency landing in Minsk over a bomb threat, which turned out to be fake. Two of its passengers, Roman Protasevich, the founder of a Telegram channel that Belarus has designated as extremist, and his girlfriend, Russian national Sofia Sapega, were detained during the stopover at the airport.
- Categories: Crime, Law & Justice, Unrest, Conflicts & War
- Location: Minsk, Belarus
- Event date: 14.06.2021
- Date published: 14.06.2021
- Author: Viktor Tolochko
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 5568x3712px, 7.2Mb
- Job-ID: 8c702347956763ff