US charges Belarus with air piracy in reporter's arrest
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FILE - A Ryanair plane with registration number SP-RSM, that was carrying Belarus opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich from Athens to Vilnius and was diverted to Minsk, Belarus, after a bomb threat, lands at the International Airport outside Vilnius, Lithuania, on May 23, 2021.. U.S. prosecutors charged four Belarusian government officials on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year to arrest an opposition journalist, using a ruse that there was a bomb threat. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)FILE - Dissident journalist Raman Pratasevich smokes a cigarette while speaking in a video from a detention center in Minsk, Belarus, in this photo released by ONT channel, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. Federal prosecutors in New York have charged four Belarusian government officials with aircraft piracy for diverting flight 4978 to arrest Pratasevich. (ONT channel via AP, File)Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks during a meeting with the delegation of the Russian Republic of Tyva in Minsk, Belarus, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. (Nikolay Petrov/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)FILE - Belarus police arrest journalist Raman Pratasevich, center, in Minsk, Belarus, Sunday, March 26, 2017. Federal prosecutors in New York have charged four Belarusian government officials with aircraft piracy for diverting Ryanair flight 4978 last year to arrest Pratasevich. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)
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FILE - A Ryanair plane with registration number SP-RSM, that was carrying Belarus opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich from Athens to Vilnius and was diverted to Minsk, Belarus, after a bomb threat, lands at the International Airport outside Vilnius, Lithuania, on May 23, 2021.. U.S. prosecutors charged four Belarusian government officials on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year to arrest an opposition journalist, using a ruse that there was a bomb threat. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)
