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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