The Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus allowed Sofya Sapug to Russia to Russia

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus granted Sofia Sapieha’s petition for transferring it to Russia to serve his sentence. According to RIA Novosti in the department, the girl will be transferred to the Russian authorities immediately after they receive a guarantee from them that the verdict sentenced to the Russian woman will be executed.

Sapieha’s lawyer Anton Gashinsky, in an interview with The Insider, suggested that the “guarantee” refers to the recognition by the Russian court of the sentence issued by the court in Belarus. “The court of the Russian Federation will have to establish that there is a similar article in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and it is possible to serve a six -year term for it,” the lawyer explained.

In early April, Gashinsky said that the procedure for transferring his client to Russia was launched, but did not name the specific deadlines in which this should happen. Earlier in March, she was refused pardon, and also entered her on the Belarusian list of people involved in terrorism.

Sapuga was detained in May 2021 along with her then young man, ex-head of Nexta Roman Protasevich: for the sake of their detention, the plane on which they flew to Lithuania from Greece were forced to sit in Minsk urgently. A year later, the Belarusian court sentenced the Russians to the six years of the colony on charges of illegal gathering and distributing “information about private life that constitute the personal and family secrets of another person, without his consent, which caused harm to the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the victim.” According to the prosecution, Sapega was engaged in the administration of the Black Book of Belarus-Telegram channel, which published the personal data of the security forces involved in the bullying of the protesters.