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Maria Sapega, girlfriend of the opposition Protasevich, asks the President of Belarus for a pardon

MADRID, 27 Jun.

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Maria Sapega, girlfriend of the opposition Protasevich, asks the President of Belarus for a pardon

MADRID, 27 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Russian citizen Sofia Sapega, a partner of the Belarusian opponent Roman Protasevich, has requested a pardon from the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, after her sentence to six years in prison after her arrest in May 2021 after the plane in which she was traveling couple suffered a forced landing in Minsk by order of the Belarusian authorities.

The presentation of this request has been confirmed by Sapega's lawyer in statements to the Russian news agency Interfax and by the woman's stepfather, Sergei Dudich, who has detailed to the TASS agency that the request was submitted last week.

"The lawyer met last week (with Sapega) in the colony (penitentiary) and they prepared the necessary documents. I hope they will be transferred to the administration of the colony, where they will also prepare the relevant documents," he said, before adding that these papers will later be transferred to Lukashenko.

Lukashenko opened the door to an extradition of Sapega to Russia in early June, after which Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov indicated that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lukashenko could discuss the issue "if they consider it necessary."

Sapega was sentenced after being found guilty of "inciting hatred and discord for ideological reasons". She was also convicted of "illegally disseminating information about the private life of another person without their consent and having undermined the freedom and legitimate interests of the victims in question", for which she will also have to pay a fine of 167,500 Belarusian rubles (almost 50,000 euros) and an amount of 7,488 rubles (about 2,000 euros) in costs.

The woman was arrested along with Protasevich at a passenger document control of an Irish airline Ryanair plane that had made an emergency landing due to an alleged bomb threat. The plane covered the distance between the capitals of Greece and Lithuania, Athens and Vilnius, respectively.

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