[HN Gopher] A Ryanair Flight Carrying an Opposition Journalist I...
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A Ryanair Flight Carrying an Opposition Journalist Is Forced to
Land in Belarus
Author : incomplete
Score : 57 points
Date : 2021-05-23 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.npr.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.npr.org)
| sschueller wrote:
| The US does it too for people they want but I would argue that
| even if you had to emergency land you should be protected from
| arrest until you cross the technical border (immigration) and
| that you can not be forced to do this.
|
| We have extradition treaties for this and arresting someone who
| was forced to cross your border doesn't negate those. You still
| need to go through the courts.
| newacct583 wrote:
| Fuck this. Where is this meme coming from? The US does not do
| this. The US didn't do this to Snowden either. What notably
| happened here is _not_ that Belarus arrested a prominent
| journalist[1] opposing the ruling regime. Tin pot regimes do
| that every week.
|
| What happened was that Belarus used its air defense apparatus
| and a faked "bomb threat" to force down a foreign aircraft[2]
| to which it _had granted airspace transit privileges under
| false pretenses_. That 's an act of war, sorry.
|
| [1] Something that the US also does not do.
|
| [2] Irish. Sadly, not a NATO member, which may be why this was
| tried.
| prostoalex wrote:
| https://www.computerworld.com/article/2483490/bolivian-
| presi...
| bobthebuilders wrote:
| And for the journalist question
|
| https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/worl.
| ..
| bobthebuilders wrote:
| A plane was diverted under threat of missile attack and
| forced to land.
| jonny_eh wrote:
| Share?
| talal7860 wrote:
| Similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27255561
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