Plan Needed to Tackle Outrages by Gangster Regimes: Ex-defence Chief

Opposition blogger and activist Roman Protasevich, who is accused of participating in an unsanctioned protest at the Kuropaty preserve, arrives for a court hearing in Minsk, Belarus, on April 10, 2017. Stringer/Reuters

Britain needs a long-term plan is tackle “criminal outrages by gangster regimes,” a former military chief has said.

Lord Stirrup made the call at Westminster as he argued that the “egregious act” of Belarus forcing the diversion of a passenger jet to arrest a journalist and prominent government critic was not an isolated incident.