{"id":45560,"date":"2023-01-31T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/kremlin-on-russian-womans-failed-pardon-in-minsk-every-effort-has-been-made\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"kremlin-on-russian-womans-failed-pardon-in-minsk-every-effort-has-been-made","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45560\/","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin on Russian woman\u2019s failed pardon in Minsk: every effort has been made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>January 31, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Russia has put in all possible efforts to help its jailed national Sofya Sapega (Safija Sapieha) obtain a pardon in Belarus, a spokesman for Vladimir Putin said on January 31.<\/p>\n<p> These efforts failed because \u201cit is about a sovereign state with its own laws,\u201d Dmitry Peskov told Russian privately-owned newspaper <span>Kommersant<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cEvery possible effort has been made,\u201d he said. \u201cWe will continue to monitor how the Russian national\u2019s rights are respected.\u201d <\/p>\n<p> Sapega and journalist Raman Pratasievi\u010d were arrested at a Minsk airport on May 23, 2021&nbsp;after Belarusian authorities had forced their flight to land, causing an international spat involving Irish carrier Ryanair.<\/p>\n<p> In May 2022, the Hrodna Regional Court sentenced Sapega to six years in prison. It found the dissident guilty of incitement to hatred and illegal dissemination of personal details. Human rights defenders said her persecution was politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p> She did not appeal the verdict and asked Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka for a pardon.<\/p>\n<p> On June 3, \u0141uka\u0161enka said it would be possible to send her to Russia.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe have a practice that we can hand over a Russian national to Russia. Let her serve her sentence there. Or let them do whatever they want,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it is a big lesson for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On January 10, media reported that the Belarusian ruler rejected the request for pardon. On January 31, a deputy head of his administration, head of the commission on pardons Volha \u010cuprys said the rejection was \u201cbased on law,\u201d without elaborating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 31, BPN. Russia has put in all possible efforts to help its jailed national Sofya Sapega (Safija Sapieha) obtain a pardon in Belarus, a spokesman for Vladimir Putin said on January 31. These efforts failed because \u201cit is about a sovereign state with its own laws,\u201d Dmitry Peskov told Russian privately-owned newspaper Kommersant. \u201cEvery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45560","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kremlin on Russian woman\u2019s failed pardon in Minsk: every effort has been made | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"January 31, BPN. 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