Authoritarian skyjacking

Before the pandemic, I often found myself in the airspace of Belarus, en route to either Istanbul or Doha. However, not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined what transpired yesterday, that a state, being a signatory of the Chicago Convention and an ICAO member, would use a false bomb threat and fighter jets to force a flight that was merely passing through its airspace to land so that they could detain a journalist.