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Sofia Sapega, a Russian woman detained together with Roman Protasevich, who was recently transferred to house arrest, uses a push-button phone and often communicates with her relatives on it. This is written by the Telegram channel “RT in Russian”, quoting the words of the girl’s stepfather.
Sergey Dudich said that Sofia was not limited to the time of calls, as often happens when appointing such a preventive measure. The only prohibition is to communicate on the topic of the investigation, so the girl calls often, but does not talk about the progress of the case. “We communicate on other topics and miss each other very much,” Dudich stressed.
Sapieha’s stepfather also noted that the girl’s living conditions under house arrest are much more comfortable than in a pre-trial detention center. Moreover, when Sofia was in the pre-trial detention center, her relatives did not know how she was feeling and what was wrong with her.
Recall that a citizen of the Russian Federation, Sofia Sapega, was detained on May 23, 2021 at the Minsk airport together with the former editor-in-chief of the extremist Telegram channel Nexta recognized in Belarus, Roman Protasevich. At first, both Protasevich and Sapieha were placed in custody, but then they were transferred to house arrest.