Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', opposition says

Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by rich_sasha on Sunday May 23, 2021 @02:34PM (#27257368)

I guess there is no international penal code. There are treaties but for many of them, there is no enforcement-no worldwide police to knock on your door.

So repercussions tend to range from nothing, through wagging fingers, slaps on the wrist, to sanctions, UN resolutions, UN-sanctioned wars, or if you really piss someone off, non-sanctioned wars.

I don’t think Belarus will be invaded, and I guess Russia would veto any particularly nasty move in the UN, so really this leaves stern words and some unilateral sanctions against the Lukshenko regime. Doesn’t seem like overwhelming penalty (though well-targeted and enforced sanctions can bite quite badly).

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by pc86 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @03:15PM (#27257690)

I think in this context they basically mean that there are no countries in which a fake bomb threat against an airliner isn't illegal, so whoever did this, in whatever country they happened to be, committed a serious crime.

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by Mountain_Skies on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:02PM (#27259037)

So someone from the Belarus intelligence service made a call to Ryanair and made a bomb threat. What can Ireland or any other jurisdiction do about it? Pretty much nothing, especially if the call originated in Belarus.

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by tonyarkles on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:48PM (#27258469)

Committed a serious crime? Sure. Will there be actual consequences for that individual? Unlikely.

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