The Prosecutor General of Belarus has honored a request to extradite 25-year-old Russian national Sofia Sapega to Russia to serve out her prison sentence, reports RIA Novosti.
The prosecutor’s office said that the Minsk authorities “see no obstacles” to implementing the procedure. The department stressed that they will transfer Sapega only after Russia guarantees that it will enforce the sentence.
The Russian Embassy to Belarus reported that Sofia Sapega agreed to be extradited on April 10, following a visit from the Russian consul.
Sapega was arrested in May 2021 alongside her partner, the dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, after the Belarusian authorities forcibly diverted their Ryanair flight to Minsk. She helped run the Telegram channel The Black Book of Belarus, which published information about the country’s law enforcement.
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