{"id":6058,"date":"2021-09-12T13:37:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T13:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6058"},"modified":"2021-09-12T13:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T13:37:01","slug":"the-long-reach-of-belaruss-repression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6058","title":{"rendered":"The long reach of Belarus\u2019s repression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The most egregious case happened in May, when&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/23\/world\/europe\/ryanair-belarus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Belarusian fighter jets diverted a Ryanair plane<\/a>&nbsp;that was flying over Belarus en route to Lithuania from Greece and forced it to land in Minsk. Officials claimed (with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/belarus-lukashenko-plane-email\/2021\/05\/27\/895b59d6-be5d-11eb-922a-c40c9774bc48_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">laughably flimsy evidence<\/a>) they had received a credible bomb threat against the plane. It was merely a pretext to arrest a prominent Belarusian opposition journalist,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/23\/world\/europe\/roman-protasevich.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roman Protasevich<\/a>, and his girlfriend, who were aboard the flight (along with 170 other passengers).&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22611337\/olympics-belarus-athlete-lukashenko-protest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22611337\/olympics-belarus-athlete-lukashenko-protest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The most egregious case happened in May, when Belarusian fighter jets diverted a Ryanair plane that was flying over Belarus en route to Lithuania from Greece and forced it to land in Minsk. Officials claimed (with laughably flimsy evidence) they had received a credible bomb threat against the plane. It was merely a pretext to arrest a prominent Belarusian opposition journalist, Roman Protasevich, and his girlfriend, who were aboard the flight (along with 170 other passengers).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[967,660,295,513,661],"class_list":["post-6058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-belarus","tag-dictatorship","tag-journalism","tag-journalists","tag-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6059,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6058\/revisions\/6059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}