Biography
Sofya Sapega - Lithuanian student from Russia, living in Belarus, arrested on suspicion of protests. The girl called himself an apolitical person, but her personal connections made the authorities in this doubt.Childhood and youth
Sophia Andreevna Sapega was born on February 10, 1998 in Vladivostok. When she was 8 years old, parents parted. Father remained in Russia, Anna's mother concluded a marriage with a man of Belarusian nationality, changed the surname to the Dudich and began to give at home the lessons of singing and playing the piano. The girl remained a citizen of Russia, but received the status of the resident of Belarus and Lithuania.
She graduated from the Minsk school, went to Vilnius, where he entered the university to learn jurisprudence. The educational institution often experienced political pressure of the authorities, it was even temporarily closed in 2004.
Activity
Sophia studied at the university, was distinguished by liability and did everything on time surrounding it characterized her as an open and positive person. No political activity, according to parents, was not in her biography, was interested in ordinary things for girls - fashion, travel, and so on.Personal life
Sapega was a girlfriend of the Belarusian oppositionist Roman Protasevich. Most young people met in the fall of 2020. Sophia did not advertise a personal life, did not publish joint photos in "Instagram", in VKontakte, has retained the status of a free lady.
Roman has built an opposition career since 16, in the summer of 2011, he was detained at the "silent action" in Minsk, were excluded from the prestigious lyceum of the Belarusian National Technical University. According to Protasevich, the parents kicked him out of the house, and the mother tried to take away to the exorcism session to "expel demons."
The guy joined the ranks of the radical-nationalist group "Young Front", developed a strategy and tactics, organized protests, led the agitation involved adolescents. In 2012, it was detained as a public administrator distributed "destructive content." This is despite the fact that his father was a colonel, head of the department of ideological work at the Military Academy. Roman acted in absentia to the Belarusian State University at the Faculty of Journalism, in 2018 was expelled due to poor progress.
I lived in Ukraine, where I was familiar with the head of the National Alliance, Igor Guzem, joined the "Azov" battalion, because of him, the father and mother were fired from the army and are deprived of military ranks, now they live in Poland. On January 22, 2020, Protasevich asked to provide political asylum there, at the same time speaking in support of the editor-in-chief of the BY24.org of Vladimir Miracle.
Sofya Sapga now
May 23, 2021, Sarega was arrested. Athens - Vilnius, on which she was with his companion, sat down because of the false report on mining, the girl was sent to the investigating insulator, incriminating involvement in the organization of unrest in Minsk in August - September 2020. A week later, Sofia was appointed a diploma defense. Sergey Lavrov said that Russian ambassadors were sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus with a petition for a meeting with the detainee.
On May 25, one of the providental telegram channels "Yellow Plums" published a video where Sophia sat on the background of the door in an unspecified room and recognized that he was the editor of the Black Book of Belarus, which posted personal information about the internal affairs officers.
At the end of June, it became known that the Sarega was transferred under house arrest.