Alexander Lukashenko's regime went to great lengths to arrest Raman Pratasevich. On May 23, 2021, Belarusian authorities forced a Ryanair plane  on its way from Athens to Vilnius, in Lithuania, to land in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, sparking global outrage. As soon as the plane touched down, Pratasevich, the former editor-in-chief of  Nexta, a Belarusian media network that was largely distributed via the Telegram platform and had been classified as "extremist" by the Belarusian regime, was escorted off and arrested along with his girlfriend, Sofia Sapega. This Ryanair aircraft was forced to land at Minsk airport in May 2021 Image: PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP/Getty Images Nexta, which operated from Poland, was the most important news source on the anti-government protests that erupted in August 2020 after the  rigged Belarus presidential election . Lukashenko said he had won a landslide victory, but the opposition disputed his claim.…