As it happened: Video emerges of detained Belarus journalist - BBC News
Roman Protasevich was removed from an EU-bound jet when it was forced to land in Minsk.
Before he was detained in Minsk, opposition journalist Roman Protasevich is said to have told a fellow passenger: "A death penalty awaits me here."

So how realistic is that fear?

Belarus is the only country in Europe and the former Soviet Union that still passes and carries out death sentences. Although no prisoners were executed last year, two were killed in 2019, according to Amnesty International.

Last year, Protasevich tweeted that his name had appeared on a list of terror suspects in Belarus - and terrorism charges can carry the death penalty, Al Jazeera reports.

Journalists have faced deteriorating conditions in the country. Earlier this year, media freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged the UN to investigate the "persecution of journalists" in its investigation into the Belarusian government's post-eleciton crackdown, after two reporters said they were tortured in detention. And Belarus fell five places to 158 out of 180 countries on RSF's World Press Freedom Index.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, meanwhile, has spoken of its shock at Protasevich's detention, "even as President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s government has increasingly strangled the press in Belarus for the past year, detaining, fining, and expelling journalists and sentencing them to longer and longer prison terms".