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Man slits throat in court in horror scenes after claiming family at risk WARNING - DISTRESSING CONTENT Stepan Latypov, an opposition activist in Belarus, can be seen in the video rising from the dock, picking up a sharp object, and burying it in his throat
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UPDATE 1-Lithuania trying to identify those who left Ryanair flight in Minsk Reuters 1 hr ago
By Andrius Sytas
VILNIUS, May 28 (Reuters) - Lithuania is working to confirm the identities of the passengers who disembarked from a diverted Ryanair plane after it was forced to land in Belarus, the chief of Lithuania s criminal police said on Friday.
Dissident Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, 23, were arrested when the plane landed.
But three other people also disembarked.
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said it seems likely they were secret police.
Belarus television aired interviews with three people on Wednesday who it said were the passengers in question.
Lithuania is working to confirm the identities of the passengers who disembarked from a diverted Ryanair plane after it was forced to land in Belarus, the chief of Lithuania's criminal police said on Friday. Dissident Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich, 26, and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega, 23, were arrested when the plane landed. Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said it seems likely they were secret police.