She stated that "it is absolutely clear that this is an operation of the special services to hijack an aircraft in order to detain the activist and blogger Roman Protasevich."
“We have already informed the Ryanair office and the International Civil Aviation Organization, demanding to start an investigation into the incident and take measures up to excluding Belarus from ICAO,” Tikhanovskaya said in a statement.
Earlier, a Ryanair plane on a flight from Athens to Vilnius urgently landed in Minsk.
According to reports, this was due to a bomb report on board.
The founder of the NEXTA Telegram channel recognized as extremist in Belarus, Roman Protasevich, was flying in this airliner, who was detained after landing.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda has already appealed to the Belarusian authorities with a demand to release Protasevich.