Evening Edition: Belarus Forces Airliner To Land So Journalist Can Be Arrested

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🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Last weekend a flight originally destined for Lithuania was forced to land in the Belarus capital of Minsk so that a passenger onboard could be arrested. That passenger was Roman Protasevich who has been described as an opposition journalist and a dissident of the authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko. FOX's Simon Owen speaks to Alexander Lukashuk, who leads the Belarus Service of 'Radio Free Europe' and is a colleague of the detained Protasevich, about the incident and what it means for journalistic freedoms in Belarus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.7	I'm Jerry Willis.
0:15.7	I'm Steve Doosy.
0:16.7	I'm Shannon Brem and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:19.6	Tuesday, May 25th, 2021. I'm Simon Owen. Tonight, claims of a chilling effect after an extraordinary
0:30.5	flight. As the President of Belarus orders a passenger jet to land so a
0:36.2	dissident can be arrested. This demonstration which Lukashenko did is
0:41.6	also one of the messages.
0:43.0	No, you won't be protected by your host countries any longer.
0:48.0	I can reach you, which is addressed not only to Raman Pratievich, but all others.
0:54.4	This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition.
0:57.0	On Sunday morning in Athens, 132 people boarded a plane, but not all of them made it to the flight's destination, the Lithuanian capital, Villeenus.
1:11.6	Minutes before the flight was due to land when it was still over Belarus, the pilot was told
1:16.7	by controllers there may be a bomb on board and the planes should divert immediately
1:21.7	to the Belarusian capital Minsk.
1:24.0	Belarus scrambled a fighter jet to escort the plane to land.
1:28.0	But once on the ground, there was no sign of a bomb,
1:31.0	and instead, Belarusian police arrested a dissident journalist who lives in
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