The opposition blogger’s public arrest in Belarus on Sunday is said to be in keeping with his ‘outsize personality’
In an interview last November the 26-year-old opposition journalist Raman Pratasevich said he was not planning to spend his life in exile. “I would go back to Belarus immediately if my safety was guaranteed,” he said. “My intention is to return.”
The extraordinary circumstances of Pratasevich’s involuntary homecbeaoming have provoked international outrage, after his Ryanair flight was forced on Sunday to land in Belarus’s capital Minsk. It was on its way from Greece to Lithuania, where Pratasevich was living.
