Sofia Sapega, ex-girlfriend of former Belarusian opposition journalist Roman Protasevich, recounts her time in prison and his testimony against her after the 2021 Ryanair diversion
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The Belarusian news outlet Zerkalo has published the second part of an extensive interview with Sofia Sapega, the former girlfriend of Roman Protasevich, a former editor-in-chief of the opposition Telegram channel Nexta. In May 2021, Belarusian authorities used false pretenses to force a plane flying from Athens to Vilnius to land in Minsk so they could arrest Protasevich. Sapega was detained along with him. Since then, she has lived under house arrest with Protasevich and broken up with him, been sentenced to six years in prison, spent a year in a penal colony, received a pardon, and returned
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