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She was arrested on Sunday in a forced landing of a Ryanair passenger plane from Athens to Vilnius in Minsk, along with Raman Pratasevic, the founder of the Belarusian opposition activist and blogger, founder of the Nexta information channel.
“S. Sapega is a citizen of the Russian Federation and a student of the integrated study program” International Law and European Union Law “. Upon returning with a young man from vacation, Sofia planned to defend her master’s thesis in Vilnius,” it reads in the statement released by EHU on Monday.
After the operation organized by the Belarusian authorities, officials from the Minsk Board of the Investigation Committee detained the student. Professors and friends of the group affirm that Sofía has distinguished herself in the university community for her academic results and her impeccable reputation ”, points out the university.
The university demands immediate consular assistance from Sofia, calling on international partners, donors and the human rights community to take action on the student’s release.
“The EHU community strongly condemns the impunity of the Belarusian government and demands that Belarus comply with its international obligations and guarantee the rights and freedoms of citizens enshrined in the Belarusian Constitution. We stand in solidarity with all the inhabitants of Belarus who are illegally detained and politically persecuted. protesting the unjustified detention of S. Sapega, a member of the EHU community, ”says the university.
A Ryanair passenger plane flying from Athens to Vilnius forcibly landed in Minsk on Sunday. R. Pratasevicius and S. Sapega, the Belarusian opposition activist and blogger, founder of the Nexta information channel, flew the aforementioned Ryanair plane. When the plane landed in Minsk, they were detained.
According to Lithuanian data, there were 171 passengers on the plane, including 94 Lithuanian citizens, as well as 11 Greeks, nine French, several Belarusians, Poles, Romanians, Germans, Latvians, Russians, as well as citizens of Sacartwell and other countries. . After spending about seven hours at the Minsk airport, they flew back to Vilnius, except for R. Pratasevičius, his friend, and four other people.
Belarus used a fighter jet and a military helicopter to land a civilian plane.
The Lithuanian leader and the Foreign Minister described it as an act of state terrorism, and the Lithuanian Prosecutor’s Office launched a pre-trial investigation into the hijacking of the aircraft.
On Sunday, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda said he would raise the issue of recognizing Belarusian airspace as unsafe civil aviation space and depriving Belarusian airline Belavia of the right to land at EU and NATO airports.
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