Political scientist Byshok: the different attitude towards Protasevich and Sapieha is due to the reaction to the arrest 
The Belarusian authorities did not have a clear understanding of what to do with the Roman Protasevich, editor-in-chief of the opposition Telegram channel NEXTA, and his girlfriend, a Russian woman, Sophia Sapega, after landing a Ryanair plane in Minsk. In his opinion, the different attitude towards them today is due to their reaction to the arrest. Stanislav Byshok, Executive Director of the International Monitoring Organization CIS-EMO, told Lente.ru about this.
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Earlier on December 8, the chairman of the Investigative Committee (Investigative Committee) of Belarus Dmitry Gora said that the preliminary investigation into the case of Russian woman Sofya Sapega, arrested in Belarus, is coming to an end, she has been finally charged under a number of articles.
Sapega and Protasevich were detained after an emergency landing in Minsk of a Ryanair plane, on which they flew from Athens to Vilnius. Later, she admitted on camera that she allegedly ran a Telegram channel in which the personal data of the Belarusian security officials were published. On June 25, it became known that the court decided to soften the measure of restraint and released Protasevich and Sapega under house arrest. Later, Protasevich gave an interview in which he confessed to organizing the riots and added that he wanted to “fix everything and live an ordinary calm life.” Protasevich's mother stated that he was tortured in the pre-trial detention center.