The girl of the oppositionist Roman Protasevich, Russian Sofia Sapega, was sentenced in Belarus to 6 years in prison.
< p>Sofia Sapieha was charged under seven articles of the Criminal Code: “inciting public hatred”, “illegal actions on information about personal life”, etc.
This is reported by the channel Euroradio on Telegram.
“6 years in prison. Such a sentence was handed down in Belarus today to Sophia Sapega,” the message says.
Sapega wrote a petition for clemency.
The Athens-Vilnius plane of the Ryanair company landed in Minsk, on board of which there was a Belarusian opposition journalist and blogger Roman Protasevich. The opposition leader was immediately detained.
Protasevich's girlfriend Sofia Sapega was detained with him and placed in a temporary detention center.
In Minsk she is charged with hate speech. According to the investigation, Sapieha ran a telegram channel that made public the personal data of the Belarusian security forces.
Russian Sofia Sapega wrote a petition for clemency addressed to Alexander Lukashenko.
