“Please save him!” She calls the arrested journalist’s mother

From Poland where they live, the parents of journalist Roman Protasevi, who was arrested after the hijacking of his Ryanair plane that was forced to land, is calling for the world to ‘Save him’. Natalia Protasevich, mother of the 26-year-old opponent, says she did not sleep for two nights, holding her phone in her hands, hoping she would hear something about it. “I ask, I beg, I plead with the entire international community to save him.”She said while crying during an interview with Agence France-Presse. “He’s just a reporter, he’s just a kid, please, please … ask for help. Please save him! He’ll kill him!”

Natalia and her husband Dmitry believe that their son may be in a detention center of the Belarusian intelligence service, still known as the KGB. “The lawyer tried to see him today, but was unable to meet him. We still do not know if he was there, what his condition and how he feels.”Dmitry, a former soldier, said. “One of the ways in which our authorities practice torture is by not telling the family where their loved ones are being held.”, He insists.