{"id":416795,"date":"2021-05-25T11:55:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T06:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416795"},"modified":"2021-05-25T12:28:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T06:58:18","slug":"west-weighs-action-against-belarus-over-forced-landing-of-ryanair-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/west-weighs-action-against-belarus-over-forced-landing-of-ryanair-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"West weighs action against Belarus over forced landing of Ryanair flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western politicians accused Belarus on Monday of state piracy amounting to a &#8220;warlike act&#8221;, searching for a way to retaliate that would match the gravity of the offence after Minsk forced an airliner down and arrested a dissident journalist. <\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s action, in which a Belarusian warplane intercepted a Ryanair flight between European Union members Greece and Lithuania and forced it to land in Minsk, has few precedents, and denunciations were worded in the strongest terms. <\/p>\n<p>Belarus authorities arrested a passenger, 26-year-old Roman Protasevich, whose social media feed from exile has been one of the last remaining independent outlets for news about the country since a mass crackdown on dissent last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western politicians accused Belarus on Monday of state piracy amounting to a &#8220;warlike act&#8221;, searching for a way to retaliate that would match the gravity of the offence after Minsk forced an airliner down and arrested a dissident journalist. Sunday&#8217;s action, in which a Belarusian warplane intercepted a Ryanair flight between European Union members Greece and Lithuania and forced it to land in Minsk, has few precedents, and denunciations were worded in the strongest terms. Belarus authorities arrested a passenger, 26-year-old Roman Protasevich, whose social media feed from exile has been one of the last remaining independent outlets for news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}