Primorye Governor Oleg Kozhemyako, together with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, proposed that Roman Protasevich and Sofya Sapega marry to help them be freed. He spoke about this on November 24 at a meeting of the international youth discussion club “Pacific Horizon” at FEFU.
To the surprise of those who proposed it, Romano rejected this idea. Now Sofía lives with her parents and, according to the governor, everything is fine for her: she has accepted her destiny.
“I talked to this girl who they helped get out of prison, what her goals were. I fell in love with this boy. He left her. I talked to Alexander Grigorievich, we offered to marry them and let them go out, but he refused,” Kozhemyako said.
Recall that at the end of May 2021, Sapega and Protasevich were detained in Belarus. They were passengers on a Ryanair plane that made an emergency landing at Minsk airport due to a mining threat that turned out to be false.
Sapega was convicted by the Grodno Regional Court. She was sentenced to six years in prison in a general regime colony for deliberate actions that contributed to the emergence of social hostility, as well as for the illegal collection and dissemination of information about the private lives of security forces, judges, prosecutors and officials, which that caused harm to the victims.
After the verdict was handed down, Sapieha wrote to President Alexander Lukashenko asking for forgiveness, but was denied. The deputy head of the presidential administration of Belarus, Olga Chupris, explained that the reason for the refusal was the lack of sufficient criteria for such a decision.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus stated that Sapega, together with other persons, including foreign citizens, created and managed several Telegram channels in which the personal data of at least 238 people were published, including law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, government officials and journalists.
As a result of the publication of the information, these individuals faced threats of violence against them and their loved ones, as well as damage to their property. Some of them were victims of crimes.
Protasevich was sentenced by the Minsk Regional Court to eight years in prison, but in May this year he was pardoned by Lukashenko. In June, Sapega was also pardoned by the president of Belarus. On June 7 she was handed over to the Primorsky Territory delegation, headed by Governor Oleg Kozhemyako, of the Gomel Correctional Colony.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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