No matter how important you are, it is unlikely that a dictator has scrambled a fighter plane to force down a passenger flight so that he can arrest you. This just happened to the young Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich. His flight from one city in the European Union to another, from Athens to Vilnius, was hijacked by the Belarusian state, force…
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