Sofiya Sapiega

During the migration crisis at the Belarusian-Polish border, Polish special services met a Belarusian migrant who worked as an air traffic controller at Minsk Airport. It was him who revealed the details of the forced landing of the Ryanair plane on which opposition blogger Raman Pratasevich and his friend Sofia Sapega were flying, the New York Times reports.

Sofia Sapega and Raman Pratasevich have been placed under house arrest, the Russian service of BBC News reports with reference to their families. The detainees are now being held in a rented apartment.

When visiting the Belarusian Investigative Committee, Alyaksandr Filanovich, a defence lawyer of political prisoner Sofia Sapega, was allowed to familiarise himself with certain case papers.

The European Parliament calls on the EU to punish those involved in forcing a plane to land in Minsk on 23 May and in the detention of journalist Raman Pratasevich.

The capture of Raman Protasevich and his girlfriend Sofia Sapega has raised new concerns in investment funds about the ethics of investing in Belarus’ public debt,

On May 27, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union issued a joint statement regarding the recent diversion of the Ryanair carrier by the Lukashenka and framing two passengers by Belarusian security officers at Minsk Airport.

She is in the KGB pre-trial detention facility.