56 Iranian protesters were removed from the board of the airplane at Brussels. Police said the incident ended peacefully.
"The plane is empty now. There was no violence at all," said police spokesman Olivier Vincent. The Iranian men, women and children on board refused to leave the Boeing 737 flight from Frankfurt for 16 hours in a protest against Iran’s Islamic government.
One of the protesters said: "We want the European Union to remove the Islamic leaders from Iran.”
The jet landed at 2 p.m. (1300 GMT) Thursday and had 103 passengers on the board. 56 passengers refused to disembark from the board. At 3:30 a.m. (0230 GMT) the protesters were given a written ultimatum saying they would be arrested if they did not leave immediately.
The protesters faced only administrative arrest after leaving the board.