KYIV, Ukraine—A prominent opponent of Belarus’ authoritarian president was arrested Sunday after the airliner in which he was traveling was diverted to the country after a bomb threat, in what the opposition is calling a hijacking operation by the government.
The presidential press service said President Alexander Lukashenko personally ordered that a MiG-29 fighter jet accompany the Ryanair plane—carrying opposition figure Raman Pratasevich and traveling from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania—to the airport in the capital Minsk.
