欧洲国家周一采取行动制裁白俄罗斯，并禁止其国有航空公司飞往欧洲，因为他们试图惩罚亚历山大·卢卡申科政权迫使瑞安航空客运航班降落这样它就可以逮捕船上一名主要的持不同政见者。

国际社会对周日事件的抗议不断升级，在这起事件中，白俄罗斯被指控使用虚假的炸弹威胁，将客机转移到其首都明斯克，以逮捕罗曼·普罗塔舍维奇(Roman Protasevich)，这位博主在去年反对卢卡申科的大规模抗议。

美国和欧洲国家称之为“空中海盗”和“国家支持的劫机”

周一晚上，在布鲁塞尔举行的一次峰会上，欧盟27国领导人迅速同意对白俄罗斯实施新的单独和有针对性的经济制裁。他们也接受了呼吁航空公司不再飞越白俄罗斯，禁止白俄罗斯航空公司在欧洲飞行。

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在一份公报中，欧盟领导人要求白俄罗斯立即释放普罗塔舍维奇及其与他一起被捕的女友索菲亚·萨帕加。

限制白俄罗斯航班的举动反映了欧洲国家的愤怒和人们的信念，即卢卡申科必须承担后果，卢卡申科政府已经面临多次制裁。

白俄罗斯国家电视台周一播放了普罗塔舍维奇的视频，这是他被捕后第一次被看到。在视频中，普罗塔舍维奇从城市的一所监狱向镜头做了一个明显的忏悔。

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这架载有反对派人物拉曼·普拉塔塞维奇的瑞安航空飞机被转移到明斯克后

看起来疲惫不堪，似乎受到了胁迫，他说他很健康，并承认了组织大规模骚乱的指控。

“我从官员那里得到的待遇是最大限度正确的，并且符合法律。此外，我将继续配合调查，并对在明斯克市组织大规模骚乱的指控认罪。

该视频首次出现是在白俄罗斯独立媒体暗示普罗塔舍维奇因心脏问题住院之后。普罗塔舍维奇在视频中否认他患有任何健康问题。

这架载有普罗塔舍维奇和其他120名乘客的飞机正从雅典飞往立陶宛首都维尔纽斯，在接近立陶宛边境时突然转向。瑞安航空表示，白俄罗斯空中交通管制员已经通知该航班涉嫌安全威胁，并指示其在明斯克降落。一架白俄罗斯米格-29战斗机也被派去护送飞行。

在地面上，白俄罗斯特工带走了普罗塔舍维奇，并拘留了塞佩加。其余的乘客随后被搜查并扣留了几个小时，因为白俄罗斯官员继续伪装处理炸弹威胁。

这架飞机最终被允许离开，留下普罗塔舍维奇和塞佩加，以及另外三人，欧洲官员表示，他们怀疑这三人是白俄罗斯安全人员。

瑞安航空公司首席执行官迈克尔·奥利里周一谴责了白俄罗斯的行为，他告诉爱尔兰广播电台“新闻谈话”(NewsTalk)“这是一起国家支持的劫机案件。”

与此同时，白俄罗斯当局继续声称，他们是在应对真正的炸弹威胁，并采取行动保护乘客。

白俄罗斯交通运输部的一名高级官员周一试图做出令人难以置信的声明，称恶作剧炸弹威胁是由巴勒斯坦激进组织哈马斯发出的。

在一次新闻发布会上，该部航空司司长阿特约姆·西科尔斯基(Artyom Sikorsky)用俄语大声朗读了一条他声称是哈马斯发给明斯克机场的信息。

“我们，哈马斯士兵，要求以色列在加沙地带停火，”西科斯基宣读的信息开始，并继续要求欧盟停止支持以色列。他没有解释为什么哈马斯只向明斯克机场发出信息，也没有解释为什么它会在停火开始几天后要求停火。

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白俄罗斯的声明迫使哈马斯否认，一名发言人说这不是真的，该组织没有使用这种策略。

欧洲领导人驳斥了白俄罗斯的解释，事实上，在周一的峰会之前，德国领导人安格拉·默克尔称之为“完全不可信”

普罗塔舍维奇是个电报新闻频道NEXTA的创始人在去年反对卢卡申科的大规模抗议活动中发挥了至关重要的作用。该频道和另一个NEXTA Live拥有200多万订户，在抗议期间，他们帮助协调示威活动，并发布了他们和警察暴力的视频，这些视频帮助催化了反对卢卡申科的和平起义。

Protasevich已经离开NEXTA，现在经营着自己的热门博客。

白俄罗斯当局去年将Protasevich列入恐怖主义观察名单，并以大规模骚乱罪和煽动仇恨罪对他提起刑事诉讼，这些罪行可判处15年和12年监禁。

普罗赛维奇的父亲德米特里周一告诉自由欧洲电台，他担心他的儿子可能会在白俄罗斯遭受酷刑。他的女朋友萨帕加也仍然被拘留，她的母亲说她现在在明斯克的奥克雷斯蒂纳监狱，一个臭名昭著的监狱。23岁的萨帕加是俄罗斯公民，在维尔纽斯的一所大学学习。

普罗塔舍维奇的母亲娜塔莉亚在接受NEXTA的电话采访时说，她为他感到骄傲。

“我只想说，我的儿子——他是个英雄。我真的希望国际社会站出来。这对我来说很难，”她说，声音沙哑。

EU imposes sanctions on Belarus over 'hijacked' Ryanair flight

European countries on Monday moved to sanction Belarus and ban its state airline from flying to Europe as they sought to punish Alexander Lukashenko's regime forforcing a Ryanair passenger flight to landin the country so it could arrest a leading dissident onboard.

The international outcry has continued to grow over Sunday's incident, in which Belarus is accused of having used a false bomb threat to divert the airliner to its capital, Minsk, in order to arrest Roman Protasevich, a blogger who played a key role inlast years' mass protests against Lukashenko.

The United States and European countries have called it "air piracy" and "state-sponsored hijacking."

At a summit in Brussels on Monday night, the 27 leaders of the European Union countries agreed quickly to drawing up fresh individual and targeted economic sanctions against Belarus. They also accepted calls to urgeairlinesto no longer fly over Belarus and for Belarus' airlines to be banned from flying in Europe.

In a communique, the EU leaders demanded that Belarus immediately release Protasevich as well as his girlfriend, Sofia Sapega, who was arrested with him.

The move to limit flights from Belarus reflected the anger among European countries and people's belief that there must be consequences for Lukashenko, whose government has already face repeated volleys of sanctions.

Belarusian state television on Monday aired a video of Protasevich, seen for the first time since his arrest. In the video, Protasevich makes an apparent confession to the camera from a jail in the city.

Looking exhausted and seeming under duress, he said he was healthy and was confessing to charges of organizing mass disorder.

"My treatment from officers has been maximally correct and according to the law. Also, I am continuing to cooperate with the investigation and to give a guilt confession to the charge of organizing mass disorder in the city of Minsk," he said.

The video first appeared after independent media in Belarus suggested Protasevich was hospitalized suffering from a heart problem. Protasevich in the video denied he was suffering from any health problems.

The plane carrying Protasevich and 120 other passengers was flying from Athens to Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, when it was suddenly diverted as it approached the Lithuanian border. Ryanair said Belarusian air traffic controllers had informed the flight of an alleged security threat and instructed it to land in Minsk. A Belarusian Mig-29 fighter jet was also dispatched to escort the flight.

On the ground, Belarusian agents took Protasevich away and detained Sepega. The rest of the passengers were then searched and held for hours as Belarusian officials continued the charade of handling a bomb threat.

The plane was eventually allowed to depart, leaving behind Protasevich and Sepega, and also three others, who European officials have said they suspect were Belarusian security agents.

Ryanair's CEO, Michael O'Leary, on Monday condemned Belarus' actions, telling the Irish radio station NewsTalk "this was a case of state-sponsored hijacking."

Belarusian authorities meanwhile have continued to claim they were responding to a real bomb threat and acting to protect the passengers.

A senior official from Belarus' transport ministry on Monday sought to make the implausible claim the hoax bomb threat had been sent by the Palestinian militant group, Hamas.

At a press conference Artyom Sikorsky, director of the ministry's aviation department, read aloud in Russian a message he claimed had been sent by Hamas to Minsk airport.

"We, the Soldiers of Hamas, demand Israel cease fire in the Gaza Strip," the message read by Sikorsky began, going on to demand the EU stop supporting Israel. He did not explain why Hamas would have sent the message only to Minsk airport or why it would demand a ceasefire days after one had already begun.

The Belarusian claim forced a denial from Hamas, with a spokesman saying it wasn't true and that the group doesn't use such tactics.

European leaders have dismissed the Belarusian explanations, in fact, before Monday's summit, Germany's leader, Angela Merkel, called them "totally implausible."

Protasevich was afounder of the Telegram-based news channel NEXTA, which played a crucial role during the mass protests last year against Lukashenko. The channel and another NEXTA Live have over 2 million subscribers and during the protests helped coordinate demonstrations and published videos of them and of police violence that helped catalyze the peaceful uprising against Lukashenko.

Protasevich has left NEXTA and now runs his own popular blog.

Belarusian authorities last year placed Protasevich on a terrorism watchlist and opened criminal cases against him on the mass disorder charges and also of inciting hatred, offenses that carry 15 and 12 year prison sentences.

Protsevich's father Dmitry on Monday told Radio Free Europe he feared his son might be tortured in Belarus. His girlfriend Sapega is also still detained and her mother said she was now in Minsk's Okrestina jail, a notorious prison. Sapega, 23, is a Russian citizen, studying at a university in Vilnius.

Protasevich's mother, Natalya, in a phone interview with NEXTA said she was proud of him.

"I want to say just that my son -- he's a hero. I really hope that the international community will stand up. It's very hard for me," she said, her voice cracking.