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Roman Protasevich, the Journalist that the Belarussian Intelligence Services Hijacked an International Flight to Abduct, wsa pardoned by the Lukashenko Regime instead of having to complete the eight year prison sentence for his confessions and guilty plea regarding organizing "mass unrest"...

The BBC article didn't specify why the US Justice Department was able to do it. Searched and found some US News & World Report article which pointed out the obvious...

The US has charged four Belarusian officials with aircraft piracy over the diversion of a Ryanair passenger plane to Minsk last May. The CEO of Ryanair also called the incident a "state sponsored hijacking." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60077773

More details have emerged on the hijacking by Belarussian Security personnel. > The aircrew tried to contact Ryanair in Poland but Minsk Air Traffic Control said "they weren't answering" the phone calls which apparently turned out to be a falsehood. > The change of course occurred six miles...

IIRC that was Italy, France and Spain denying the plane airspace due to the suspicion Edward Snowden was aboard. So they landed in Austria where an Austrian airport official boarded but didn't search the plane because they didn't have enough fuel to get where they were going then. Evo Morales...

https://www.delfi.lt/news/daily/world/lukasenka-es-saliu-reikalauja-kompensuoti-islaidas-patirtas-del-ryanair-lektuvo.d?id=87306687 President Lukashenko looks like he's clearly being intimidated by the threat of EU Sanctions. As has been revealed in the interim, Lukashenko blamed the bomb...

But why? To arrest the journalist on board. Quite the interesting operation. I guess flights should avoid Belarussian airspace from now on. https://www.politico.eu/article/belarus-journalist-arrest-roman-protasevich-diverted-flight-minsk/