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“We managed to reach the defendant today. I have signed [pasižadėjimą neviešinti informacijos], I cannot give you more details, “said the lawyer.
Alenskaya added that he could not say exactly where he was and what his condition was. He noted that R. Protasevičius was “alive and well.”
“I even made him take off his mask to make sure. He does not complain about his health, he was not in the hospital, ”said I. Alenskaja.
At the time, R. Protasevičius’s girlfriend, Sofija Sapega, who was detained with him when the plane they were flying from Greece to Lithuania forcibly landed in Minsk over the weekend, has not yet visited his defense lawyer.
Alexander Filanovich said on Thursday that “it was not possible to visit Sofia again today due to the lack of offices in the KGB detention center for meetings with lawyers.”
He added that he will try to visit S. Sapeg on Friday. On the same day, the court will hear a complaint about the arrest of a girl who is a Russian citizen and is studying in Vilnius.
Belarus’ human rights center Viasna reported that Sapega had been accused of “inciting discord”.
“Political prisoner Sofia Sapega has become a suspect under Article 130 (3) of the Penal Code, for ‘inciting racial, ethnic, religious or other discord,'” Viasna told Telegram on Thursday.
According to human rights defenders, the girl faces up to 12 years in prison under this article.
S. Sapega, 23, R. Protasevičius, 26, and about 100 other passengers flew on a Ryanair ocean liner from Athens to Vilnius on Sunday. He had approached Lithuanian airspace but was forced to head to the Belarusian capital when the country’s air dispatchers reported a possible security threat on board. Finally, this information was not confirmed.
Sapega was previously reported to be a suspect in Belarus of certain crimes allegedly committed after the controversial 2020 presidential elections. A video was posted this week in which he says he has edited the Belarusian Black Book of Telegram, which publishes data on the forces. security of the country.
Last year, Minsk found the founder of the opposition Nexta information channel, Protasevičius, and his 22-year-old friend Sciapan Pucil, on the list of “persons involved in terrorist activities”, and declared the channel itself “extremist” and ordered your blocking.
Following the August presidential elections, which the opposition and western democracies consider rigged, Belarus has been plagued by unprecedented mass protests for months. The winner of that vote was authoritarian leader Aliaksandr Lukashenko, who has ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly three decades.
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