Lalrp.org: 
Belarusian flight controllers ordered the Ryanair jetliner touring from Greece to Lithuania to land in Minsk, telling the crew there was a bomb risk in opposition to the flight.
No explosives have been discovered on board as soon as the airliner was on the bottom, however Pratasevich, a Belarusian citizen who lived in exile on the time, was detained. His Russian girlfriend was additionally arrested. The airplane then was allowed to proceed on to Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital.
In response to the pressured diversion, a number of Western nations imposed a raft of recent sanctions and barred their planes from flying over Belarus.
Pratasevich ran a Telegram messaging app channel that was extensively utilized by individuals in mass protests in opposition to the disputed 2020 election that gave authoritarian Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a sixth time period in workplace. He was charged with organizing unrest and plotting to grab energy.
The founding father of the Telegram channel, Stepan Putilo, and one other editor of the channel, Yan Rudik, have been sentenced in absentia to twenty and 19 years in jail, respectively. Each stay in exile.
