Belaeronavigatsia Republican Unitary Air Navigation Services Enterprise is responsible for Belarusian air traffic control. It therefore bears responsibility for the order to intercept passenger flight FR4978 and compel its landing at Minsk airport, without proper justification, on 23 May 2021. In doing so, it acted on the direction of Alexander Lukashenko and in conjunction with the Belarusian defence forces. This resulted in the detention of the aircraft, its passengers and the crew, and the arrest of opposition journalist and civil society actor Roman Protasevich and Protasevich’s partner Sofia Sapega. This politically-motivated decision was aimed at arresting and detaining opposition journalist Protasevich and Sapega and constitutes a form of repression of civil society and democratic opposition in Belarus. Belaeronavigatsia is therefore responsible for the repression of civil society and democratic opposition in Belarus and so undermined democracy and the rule of law there.
Belaeronavigatsia Republican Unitary Air Navigation Services Enterprise is responsible for Belarusian air traffic control. It therefore bears responsibility for the order to intercept passenger flight FR4978 and compel its landing at Minsk airport, without proper justification, on 23 May 2021. In doing so, it acted on the direction of Alexander Lukashenko and in conjunction with the Belarusian defence forces. This resulted in the detention of the aircraft, its passengers and the crew, and the arrest of opposition journalist and civil society actor Roman Protasevich and Protasevich’s partner Sofia Sapega. This politically-motivated decision was aimed at arresting and detaining opposition journalist Protasevich and Sapega and constitutes a form of repression of civil society and democratic opposition in Belarus.
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Historical (last time active at 13.07.2021 05:15)
Last name/Name
Belaeronavigatsia Republican Unity Air Navigation Services Enterprise
Full name/Name
Belaeronavigatsia Republican Unity Air Navigation Services Enterprise
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Prime alias
Status
Historical (last time active at 28.02.2022 05:16)
Last name/Name
Belaeronavigatsia Republican Unitary Air Navigation Services Enterprise
Full name/Name
Belaeronavigatsia Republican Unitary Air Navigation Services Enterprise
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