Prosecutors say the men reported a fake bomb threat to detain an opposition journalist in Minsk.
The US has charged four Belarusian officials with aircraft piracy over the diversion of a passenger plane to Minsk last May.
The air traffic officials waited for the plane to enter Belarusian air space before alerting the pilot to the purported bomb threat in order to force it to land in Minsk. "The next pilot who gets a distress call from a tower may doubt the authenticity of the emergency - which puts lives at risk," Mr Driscoll added.The incident sparked international outrage and punitive sanctions were imposed on Belarus by the US, EU and the UK.
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