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Belarusian dissident journalist Raman Pratasevich gestures while speaking at a news conference at the National Press Center of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, June 14, 2021. A Belarusian court convicted a dissident journalist who was arrested after being pulled off a commercial flight that was diverted to the country and sentenced him Wednesday, May 3, 2023, to eight years in prison. (Ramil Nasibulin/BelTA pool photo via AP, File)

Dissident pulled off plane by Belarus gets 8 years in prison

Associated Press

In this image released Monday, May 24, 2021, by Belarus Government press office, dissident journalist Raman Pratasevich speaks in a video from a detention center in Minsk, Belarus after he was arrested when Belarus diverted his flight. In an hour-long documentary aired late Wednesday, June 2, 2021, by the Belarus state-controlled ONT channel, Pratasevich alleged that he has been set up by an unidentified associate. (Belarus Government press office via AP, File)

Belarusian journalist in prison video after flight diversion

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

Viachka Krasulin, who fled Belarus after police arrested and beat him during demonstrations against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko in August 2020, sits at a cafe in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. He and other Belarusians who have left for European countries like Lithuania were shocked after Belarus diverted a Ryanair jetliner on Sunday, May 23, 2021, to arrest dissident journalist Raman Pratasevich, who also was living abroad but was on the flight. (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Belarusians who fled crackdown fearful after diverted flight

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko addresses the Parliament in Minsk, Belarus, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Lukashenko is defending his action to divert a European flight that triggered bruising European Union sanctions and accused the West of waging a "hybrid war" to "strangle" the ex-Soviet nation. On Sunday, May 23, 2021, Belarusian flight controllers ordered a Ryanair jetliner flying from Greece to Vilnius to land in the country's capital, Minsk because of a bomb threat and a Belarusian fighter jet was scrambled to escort the plane. (Sergei Shelega/BelTA Pool Photo via AP)

Belarusian leader defends his action to divert flight

By Yuras Karmanau - Associated Press

In this photo provided by ONLINER.BY, security use a sniffer dog to check the luggage of passengers on the Ryanair plane with registration number SP-RSM, carrying opposition figure Raman Pratasevich which was traveling from Athens to Vilnius and was diverted to Minsk after a bomb threat, in Minsk International airport, Sunday, May 23, 2021, in BelarusWestern leaders decried the diversion of a plane to Belarus in order to arrest an opposition journalist as an act of piracy and terrorism. The European Union and others on Monday demanded an investigation into the dramatic forced landing of the Ryanair jet. (ONLINER.BY via AP)

Raman Pratasevich detainment, Ryanair flight ‘forced diversion’ condemned by Joe Biden

By David Sherfinski and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, March 26, 2017, file photo, Belarus police detain journalist Raman Pratasevich, center, in Minsk, Belarus. Raman Pratasevich, a founder of a messaging app channel that has been a key information conduit for opponents of Belarus’ authoritarian president, has been arrested after an airliner in which he was riding was diverted to Belarus because of a bomb threat. The presidential press service said President Alexander Lukashenko personally ordered that a MiG-29 fighter jet accompany the Ryanair plane — traveling from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania — to the Minsk airport. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

Ryanair CEO on Belarus plane diversion: ‘State-sponsored hijacking’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, March 26, 2017, file photo, Belarus police detain journalist Raman Pratasevich, center, in Minsk, Belarus. Raman Pratasevich, a founder of a messaging app channel that has been a key information conduit for opponents of Belarus’ authoritarian president, has been arrested after an airliner in which he was riding was diverted to Belarus because of a bomb threat. The presidential press service said President Alexander Lukashenko personally ordered that a MiG-29 fighter jet accompany the Ryanair plane — traveling from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania — to the Minsk airport. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

West condemns plane’s diversion to arrest Belarus journalist

By Raf Casert and Liudas Dapkus - Associated Press

In this Sunday, March 26, 2017, file photo, Belarus police detain journalist Raman Pratasevich, center, in Minsk, Belarus. Raman Pratasevich, a founder of a messaging app channel that has been a key information conduit for opponents of Belarus’ authoritarian president, has been arrested after an airliner in which he was riding was diverted to Belarus because of a bomb threat. The presidential press service said President Alexander Lukashenko personally ordered that a MiG-29 fighter jet accompany the Ryanair plane — traveling from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania — to the Minsk airport. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

Michael McCaul seeks Alexander Lukashenko punishment for bogus threat to arrest opposition activist

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times