Roman ProtasevichMINSK, Jan 24 One of the founders of the Nexta Telegram channel, recognized in Belarus extremist, Roman Protasevich said that he left the place where he was kept under house arrest and got a job at a human rights center. A Ryanair plane flying from Athens to Vilnius made an emergency landing at the Minsk airport on May 23, 2021 due to a report about mining, which was not subsequently confirmed. Protasevich was on board, he was detained during the check of documents. A criminal case has been initiated against Protasevich under several articles, including the article «organization of mass riots» during the protests after the 2020 presidential elections, he faces up to 15 years in prison. Initially, he was held in a pre-trial detention center in Minsk, and then was transferred to house arrest.The Ryanair plane was landed in Minsk on false information, the ICAO decided «The investigation is ongoing, I have spent the last seven months under house arrest … There is work … I will start deploying media activities at the Center for Systemic Human Rights,» Protasevich said during a stream on Monday on YouTube- channel of the director of this center, Dmitry Belyakov. He noted that «he had just left the place where he was under house arrest», Monday is the first day he left the house, and said that he hoped to «get back to work as soon as possible.» Protasevich explained , that he will not be a human rights activist directly, but plans to popularize the successful «cases» of the «Systemic Human Rights Protection» center, including the case of a Polish soldier Emil Chechko who fled to Belarus, whose interests in Belarus are represented by the center.
Sapieha wrote to Lukashenko a petition for clemency Protasevich said that he also plans to resume activity on Twitter and organize the work of his Telegram channel in the format of a blog on current events. He stated that he had not followed the news lately, including the investigation of the incident with the Ryanair plane landing in Minsk, which allowed him to «look at some things from the position of a simple Belarusian.» He once again stated that he did not exclude the possibility that «he could be conditionally substituted by his own people, the probability of such a thing is high.» Protasevich also added that he was not afraid of being liquidated by Western intelligence services, because the Belarusian intelligence services had proven their professionalism. “I don’t think that an attempt on my life is possible,” the blogger added. In addition, he said that he could not predict the timing of the completion of the investigation of his criminal case and the result of the investigation. According to him, he entered into a pre-trial agreement, but the decision on whether he complied with its terms will be taken by the competent authorities. what does he think about Tikhanovskaya
