SCOTLAND’S BECOMING LIKE BELARUS
(Rob Brown, 25th May 2021)
We’ve all got our own favourite horror stories about flying with Ryanair, but being suddenly diverted to Minsk (on a flight from Athens to Vilnius) after the plane has been effectively hijacked by Belarusian security agents takes the biscuit. What should most disturb us in Scotland is why this happened – to capture a blogger who’s been a fierce and formidable critic of President Alexander Lukashenko. While there has been nothing close to such state-sponsored piracy in this country, the Scottish blogosphere and Twittersphere are becoming dangerous territory – for much the same reason as in Belarus: we’re ruled by a regime clearly determined to crush forthright dissent or even politically incorrect mutterings. Sturgeon’s Scotland is gradually becoming close to a semi-police state, in which victims of malicious prosecutions by state prosecutors have found themselves sleeping for almost a week on a concrete cell floor.
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