Airlines re-routed flights to avoid Belarus's airspace on Tuesday and Belarusian aircrafts faced a possible restriction from Europe, as international outrage mounted over Minsk forcing down a jetliner and arresting a dissident journalist on board.
Western nations implicated Belarus of hijacking and piracy over the interception of the Ryanair plane as it crossed the country on a flight from Greece to Lithuania, and diplomats said France, Ireland and Estonia would raise the occurrence at a private conference of the UNSC on Wednesday.
The behaviour of the Belarus program is outrageous, unlawful, and completely unacceptable, Canada PM Justin Trudeau informed press reporters.
In action to Minsk's actions, the European air traffic control company, Eurocontrol, suggested that EU and British carriers that fly over Belarus ought to re-route through the Baltic states.
Lufthansa, KLM, SAS, Air France, LOT and Singapore Airlines were amongst providers that revealed they would stop flying over Belarus.
A video launched over night showed Roman Protasevich, 26,-- who was pulled from the guest plane after Belarus scrambled a warplane to escort it to Minsk on Sunday-- admitting to having arranged anti-government presentations.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the video was worrying and explained the required landing of the jet as an extraordinary and undesirable act .
Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said the footage showed Protasevich had actually been tortured.
He said that he was treated legally, but he's plainly beaten and under pressure.
There is no doubt that he was tortured, she said.
In the video released overnight, Protasevich can be seen seated at a desk in a dark hooded sweatshirt.
I can state that I do not have any health problems Policemans are treating me appropriately and according to the law, he says, adding that he had confessed to arranging mass protests in Minsk.
His companion Sofia Sagega, a Russian person, may also face criminal charges, Russia's foreign ministry stated.
Belarus did not comment on the abuse claims.