Sofija Sapega, a Passenger on a Plane that Landed in Minsk: I Was Sitting in a Colony, While Pratasevičius Played on the Computer and Got Married Several Times
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On May 23, 2021, a Ryanair flight bound for Vilnius was forced to land in Minsk. Belarusian authorities detained Raman Pratasevich and his girlfriend, Sofya Sapega, who were on board. Five years later, the woman told her version of events in an interview with Zerkalo.
In May 2021, Sofija Sapega, who was studying in Lithuania, flew from a vacation in Greece to Vilnius, but after the Belarusian authorities forced the Ryanair plane to land in Minsk, she was detained along with her then-partner Romanas Pratasevičius. Five years later, in an interview with the Zerkalo portal, she spoke about the interrogations, the pressure from the KGB, and the role of her ex-lover in persuading her to cooperate with Belarusian l…
On 23 May 2021, Belarus's intelligence services tricked into landing in Minsk the Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius, where Roman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sophia Sapega flew. Protasevich was the former head of the popular Nexta television channel, which coordinated the 2020 protests in Belarus. Sapega was the administrator of the Black Book of Belarus (CBK) television channel, in which the personal data of the security forces involved i…
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