Belarus' Lukashenko pardons Russian citizen Sapega -Belta

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned a Russian citizen who was detained when Minsk forced down a civilian airliner in 2021, the Belta news agency reported on Wednesday.

Sofia Sapega, 25, was arrested along with her then-boyfriend, exiled Belarus dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, when their Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius was forced to land in Minsk in May 2021.

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