{
  "id": 17085491,
  "title": "‘I went to prison while he played video games’: Sofia Sapega, arrested alongside journalist Roman Protasevich after Belarus forced their Ryanair flight to land in Minsk, tells her side of the story",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/i-went-to-prison-while-he-played-video-games-sofia-sapega-arrested",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-29T15:36:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Meduza (English)",
    "slug": "meduza-english",
    "url": "https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/10/29/i-went-to-prison-while-he-played-video-games-sofia-sapega-arrested-alongside-journalist-roman-protasevich-after-belarus-forced-their-ryanair-flight-to-land-in-minsk-tells-her-side-of-the-story"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "On May 23, 2021, Belarusian security services tricked a Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius into landing in Minsk. On board were Roman Protasevich (Raman Pratasevich) and his girlfriend, Sofia Sapega. Protasevich had been the former editor-in-chief of the popular Telegram channel Nexta, which coordinated the 2020 protests in Belarus. Sapega administered the Telegram channel “Black Book of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}