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The dad of detained dissident journalist Roman Protasevich said he believes his son was forced in a video posted online to admit guilt and appeared to have a broken nose.<\/p>\n

The Lithuania-based blogger and his female companion, Sofia Sapega, were both taken into custody after Belarus scrambled a warplane to intercept a Ryanair aircraft flying from Athens to Vilnius.<\/p>\n

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It was diverted to Minsk on Sunday in an action condemned by the European Union and the US.<\/p>\n

Appearing on several channels of the Telegram messaging app on Monday, Mr Protasevich, 26, acknowledged playing a role in organising mass disturbances in Minsk last year.<\/p>\n

To his dad, Dzmitry Protasevich, the video appeared to be a result of coercion.<\/p>\n

“It’s likely his nose is broken, because the shape of it has changed and there’s a lot of powder on it.<\/p>\n

“All of the left side of his face has powder,” he told Reuters in an interview in Russian on Monday from Wroclaw, Poland, where he and his wife live.<\/p>\n

“It’s not his words, it’s not his intonation of speech. He is acting very reserved and you can see he is nervous.<\/p>\n

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“And it’s not his pack of cigarettes on the table – he doesn’t smoke these. So I think he was forced.”<\/p>\n

He added: “My son cannot admit to creating the mass disorders, because he just didn’t do any such thing.”<\/p>\n

Belarus’ Interior Ministry said Mr Protasevich was being held in jail and had not complained of ill health.<\/p>\n

The 27 leaders of the European Union on Monday demanded his immediate release as well as an investigation by the International Civil Aviation Organization into the incident.<\/p>\n

They also agreed to impose more sanctions on Belarus, called on their airlines to avoid Belarusian airspace and authorised work to ban Belarusian airlines from European skies and airports, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n

The EU, along with the United States, UK and Canada had already imposed asset freezes and travel bans on almost 90 Belarusian officials, including President Alexander Lukashenko.<\/p>\n

That followed an August election that opponents and the West say was a sham. The president has denied electoral fraud.<\/p>\n

Since the disputed vote, authorities have rounded up thousands of his opponents, with all major opposition figures now in jail or exile.<\/p>\n

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“We are surprised that the destiny of one person means a lot, that it is seen as valuable to the European Union,” Dzmitry Protasevich said. “This is something that is lost in Belarus.”<\/p>\n

“I think what happened was an act of revenge, to enlighten others: Look what we can do,” he said. “This is total insanity, what is going on.”<\/p>\n

His social media feed from exile has been one of the last remaining independent outlets for news about the country since a mass crackdown on dissent last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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