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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Stuti Mishra

US charges Belarus officials with piracy over forced landing of Ryanair plane

Nikolay Petrov/BelTA Pool Photo via AP

Belarus has denied being involved in the diversion of a plane that carried a critical journalist in May last year, shortly after the US charged four of the country’s officials.

US prosecutors charged four Belarus officials with aircraft piracy on Thursday for diverting a Ryan Air flight to Minsk that carried the journalist, something the country’s president denied a day later.

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