Sapieha, convicted in Belarus, agreed to be extradited to Russia
Russian Sofya Sapega, sentenced in Belarus to six years in prison, has agreed to be extradited to Russia, the Russian Embassy in Minsk reported on its VKontakte page on Wednesday, April 12. “Our consul visited Sofia Sapega on Monday, April 10. During the meeting with the convicted Russian citizen, she gave her consent to be extradited to Russia for possible serving of sentence already in the territory of the Russian Federation”, says the report . .
On April 3, lawyer Anton Gashinsky said that the procedure to return Sapieha to Russia had already started.
Sofia Sapieha Arrest
Sofya Sapieha was arrested in May 2021 in Minsk, along with Roman Protasevich, former editor-in-chief of the opposition channel Telegram Nexta, after the forced landing of a Ryanair passenger plane, on which they were returning to Vilnius after holidays in Greece. .
In May last year, the girl was sentenced to six years in a penal colony. The court found her guilty of articles about incitement to social hatred and illegal collection and dissemination of data on private life. The Russian woman was ordered to compensate the victims for moral damage – 167.5 thousand Belarusian rubles (more than 5.1 million rubles) and pay court costs in the amount of 7488 Belarusian rubles (more than 232 thousand rubles).
A month later, Sapieha submitted to the administration of the IK-4 colony in Gomel, where she was serving her sentence, a petition to the Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko with a request to release her from the six-year sentence or replace her sentence with a milder one. In January it became known that Sapieha had been denied a pardon.
Source: DW
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