One of the passengers on board the Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius was Belarus opposition activist Raman Pratasevich, who is wanted on a variety of charges. As soon as the plane landed, he was arrested, according to the Belarus Interior Ministry. The Ryanair plane lands at the airport outside Vilnius, Lithuania, Sunday, May 23, 2021. ICAO later said it was "strongly concerned by the apparent forced landing of a Ryanair flight and its passengers, which could be in contravention of the Chicago Convention." "The escalation of repressions in Belarus, and this situation that's happened with [the] flight is a result of impunity," she told CNN.

Source: CNN May 23, 2021 23:27 UTC