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wed, 21 august 2019

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First is the fact that "coloured" people were specifically banned from any role apart from domestic servants.

Then we have the fact the royal family will not acknowledge that ban properly, and refuses to say when it ended.

Then there is the lack of evidence of ethnic minority employees before the 90s.

And then that ethnic minority employees are still entirely absent from senior roles.

And finally that the Queen lobbied (sucessfully) until at least 2010 to be allowed to discriminate against ethnic minorities without legal repercussions.

Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich was kidnapped by the authorities yesterday, after his Ryanair flight was forcibly detained in Minsk. We now know that KGB operatives boarded the plane and initiated a fight with the crew, forcing this landing. The pretext was a “bomb threat”. 

Above are the reported pleas of Protasevich to a Ryanair flight attendant. We now know that Protasevich has been accused of inciting riots and hatred. The Belarusian government wants to apply the death penalty against him. 

This is an act of terror coordinated by false President Alexander Lukashenko. Ever since August 2020, he has increased his campaign of persecution against journalists and his political opponents. The fact that he felt free to divert an international airline shows his audacity. 

If European nations do not apply crushing sanctions against Lukashenko’s regime now, then we cannot claim to believe in freedom of speech or freedom of the press.