Pardoned by Lukashenka, Russian woman Sapieha was sent to Russia

It became known that the leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko pardoned Russian Sofia Sapega. This was first reported by the governor of Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako. Sapieha hails from this region of Russia.

The announcement of the pardon came as a surprise. So far, only the question of transferring Sophia, who was sentenced to six years in prison in Belarus, to Russia to serve her sentence there has been considered. Much was said about this, but the court did not consider the issue of her extradition.

Earlier, Lukashenko refused to pardon Sapieha. However, at the end of May, he pardoned her ex-boyfriend Roman Protasevich.

Kozhemyako claims that the decision to pardon was made after his personal appeal to Lukashenka. “Alexander Grigorievich signed the decree on pardon immediately after our meeting“, the governor said.

“Sofia flies home to her family“, he added.

It is also reported that Sapega, who was in penal colony No. 4 in Gomel, was handed over to a delegation from the Primorsky Territory headed by Kozhemyako on June 7.

Recall that Sapieha and Protasevich, who was considered one of the most famous Belarusian opposition bloggers, was arrested in May 2021 at the Minsk airport after the Belarusian authorities forcibly landed a Ryanair plane. The liner operated a flight from Athens to Vilnius.

Protasevich, after his arrest, began to cooperate with the prosecutor’s office. He broke up with Sapega and did not maintain relations.

Protasevich was sentenced on May 3, 2023. The former editor-in-chief of the telegram channel Nexta received eight years in prison, but he was not even imprisoned in the courtroom. On May 22, Roman announced that Lukashenka had pardoned him.

Lawyer of the Sapieha family Anton Gashinsky told reporters that Sofia had already left Belarus. “She went to her father“, he added.

Earlier wrote that it became known what kind of disease “mowed down” Lukashenka after dinner with Putin.