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In the first letters to her family since her arrest, Sofia Sapega says she is "holding up" in prison.

In the first letters to her family since her arrest, Sofia Sapega says she is "holding up" in prison.

Roman Protasevich: Belarus blogger’s girlfriend Sofia Sapega could be sent to Moscow jail after arrest The i 2 hrs ago i Team © Provided by The i Sofia Sapega could be sent to Russia to serve a jail sentence, the Belarusian foreign minister has said (Photo: Reuters) The girlfriend of Belarus blogger Roman Protasevich could be sent to jail in Moscow after she was detained following the forced landing of a Ryanair flight, the Belarusian foreign minister has said. Kommersant that Russian citizen Sofia Sapega‘s trial would probably take place in Belarus because “all in...

Even writers at Pravda are demanding the release of 23-year-old Russian Sofia Sapega, arrested last week in Minsk alongside boyfriend Raman Pratasevich.

The parents of kidnapped Belarus student Sofia Sapega have begged Putin to release her from jail.   Sapega, 23, is the partner of dissident journalist Roman Protasevich and was travelling with him on a flight from Athens to Vilnius, in Lithuania, when Belarus scrambled a military jet and forced their plane to land in Minsk.  It comes as flight data shows that airspace over Belarus is virtually empty following the incident which has drawn international criticism.  Russian national Sapega is being held in a pre-trial detention centre in Minsk. A day after her arrest Belarusian state media...