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US and European leaders have condemned Belarus for forcing a Ryanair flight carrying an opposition activist to land, notes Roshan Pedder, but seem to have forgotten about a similar incident concerning Edward Snowden. Photograph: EPA
US and European leaders have condemned Belarus for forcing a Ryanair flight carrying an opposition activist to land, notes Roshan Pedder, but seem to have forgotten about a similar incident concerning Edward Snowden. Photograph: EPA
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Mon 24 May 2021 13.12 EDT
Last modified on Tue 25 May 2021 00.19 EDT
US and European leaders have rightly condemned Belarus for forcing a Ryanair flight carrying an opposition activist to land in Minsk (Report, 23 May). Would these be the same European governments that, in 2013, forced a plane carrying the Bolivian president to divert and land in Austria because of suspicions that the whistleblower Edward Snowden was on board? The US didn’t condemn that, claiming it was “a matter for European authorities”.