On May 23, 2021, Belarusian authorities forced a Ryanair flight from Athens, Greece to Vilnius, Lithuania to land in Minsk in response to a false bomb threat and then arrested Roman Protasevich, an exiled journalist onboard the flight. The United States joined much of the international community in condemning the flight's diversion and imposing additional sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's regime, adding to those levied throughout the last year due to Lukashenko's repression of opposition figures and others who have protested the results of the August 2020 Belarusian election.

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美国制裁白俄罗斯转移瑞安航空航班和持续镇压

2021 年 5 月 23 日，白俄罗斯当局强迫瑞安航空公司一架从希腊雅典飞往立陶宛维尔纽斯的航班降落在明斯克，以应对虚假炸弹威胁，然后逮捕了飞机上的流亡记者 Roman Protasevich。美国与大部分国际社会一起谴责该航班的改道，并对白俄罗斯总统亚历山大·卢卡申科的政权实施额外制裁，并增加了去年由于卢卡申科镇压反对派人士和其他抗议八月会议结果的人而征收的制裁2020年白俄罗斯大选。