{"id":47170,"date":"2023-06-07T19:18:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T16:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/lukasenka-pardons-russian-woman-arrested-after-airliners-forced-landing\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"lukasenka-pardons-russian-woman-arrested-after-airliners-forced-landing","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/47170\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka pardons Russian woman arrested after airliner\u2019s forced landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>June 7, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Sofia Sapega, a Russian national who was detained in Belarus along with an opposition blogger in 2021, has been pardoned and freed, according to a Russian governor who has met her outside the&nbsp;prison.<\/p>\n<p> Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of Russia\u2019s Primorsky krai, said he had appealed to Belarusian ruler Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka for leniency on behalf of Sapega\u2019s parents. He said \u0141uka\u0161enka signed the pardon decree yesterday after their meeting in Minsk.<\/p>\n<p> Sapega and Raman Pratasievi\u010d were arrested in May 2021 after their flight from Greece to Lithuania was diverted to Minsk by a Belarusian fighter jet. She was accused of inciting hatred and distributing information against \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n<p> Sapega&nbsp;was sentenced to six years in prison in May 2022. Pratasievi\u010d made a deal with investigators and received an eight-year prison sentence last month, only to be pardoned.<\/p>\n<p>Kozhemyako said that Sapega will fly to Moscow to reunite with her family. He added that she had been given a \u201cserious lesson\u201d and expressed hope that&nbsp;she would start a new life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 7, BPN. Sofia Sapega, a Russian national who was detained in Belarus along with an opposition blogger in 2021, has been pardoned and freed, according to a Russian governor who has met her outside the&nbsp;prison. Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of Russia\u2019s Primorsky krai, said he had appealed to Belarusian ruler Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka for leniency on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-47170","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>\u0141uka\u0161enka pardons Russian woman arrested after airliner\u2019s forced landing | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"June 7, BPN. 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