Britain summons country’s ambassador as operating permit of Belarus state airline suspended
The British government has told all UK planes to cease flying over Belarus and summoned the country’s ambassador amid outrage over the arrest of an opposition blogger and his girlfriend when their Ryanair flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Minsk.
The foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, said further sanctions were being considered against Belarus and the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, said he had suspended the operating permit for Belavia, the country’s state-owned airline, in the UK.
