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The Supreme Court of Belarus Friday announced that Russian law student Sofia Sapega was sentenced in Grodno Regional Court to six years imprisonment for involvement with opposition activities in the c...
A Belarusian court on Friday sentenced Sofia Sapega, the girlfriend of a dissident detained after their commercial flight was forced to land in Belarus last year, to six years in prison for inciting social hatred, the Vyasna rights group said.
Sofia Sapega, whose flight was forced to land in Belarus last year, was convicted for inciting social hatred.
The sentence was passed in the Hrodna Regional Court.
Russian Sapega and Belarusian boyfriend Roman Protasevich were detained in 2021 after flight forced to land in Belarus; blogger Protasevich fled his nation in 2019 and became an editor at Poland-based Nexta Live channel, which is openly hostile to Lukashenko, the Belarus leader.