Maria Kolesnikova: A Final Stand Of The Belarusian Resistance Maria Kolesnikova speaks into a megaphone during a rally in Minsk, August 17, 2020. - Natalia Fedosenko/TASS/ZUMA
The shocking, mid-flight capture of a dissident journalist brings new attention to the repression taking place in Belarus, where another prominent political prisoner Kolesnikova has been locked up for months.
MINSK Eight months before journalist Roman Protasevich was dragged from a commercial flight that Belarusian authorities essentially hijacked, an even more prominent opponent of strongman Alexander Lukashenko s decades-old regime was seized in the middle of a street in Minsk by a group of masked men, presumably KGB agents.