Belarus has failed to produce any evidence of a bomb threat that was used to justify the diversion of an airliner to Minsk — which then led to the arrest of a dissident journalist — according to the United Nations aviation agency.
In a 62-page report released Tuesday, the International Civil Aviation Organization’s fact-finding mission called the bomb threat “deliberately false,” though it added it did not have enough information to say who was behind the affair.
Ryanair Flight 4978 had been bound from Athens to Lithuania on May 23, 2021, when a Belarusian fighter jet forced it to divert and
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