The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharov said that the fate of the Russian Sophia Sapgy’s fate in Belarus stands on the agenda of Russian-Belarusian contacts and is controlled by Russian diplomats, the correspondent “Renta.ru” reports.
According to the diplomat, the Embassy is following the fate of Sapega, and its employees provide Russian support, interacting with its relatives and lawyers.
Also, since the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs it became known that in the near future diplomatic workers are planning a consular visit to Sapps at its new place of residence. Zakharova clarified that the consul had already visited her earlier when the detainee was in the SIZO of the KGB of Belarus.
Russian woman was detained on May 23, together with the former chandeller of the opposition telegram channel NEXTA Roman Protasevich, after the Ryanair plane, where they flew from Athens to Vilnius, landed urgently in Minsk. Later, the Sapega admitted that the Telegram channel was supposedly led, which published personal data of Belarusian security workers. On June 25, it became known that the court decided to mitigate the measure of restraint detainees and let them go under house arrest.