Protasevich pardoned for complete surrender of Western agents
Former editor of the Polish extremist TG channel “Nekhta” Roman Protasevich was pardoned by the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko.
Protasevich himself announced this to Belarusian journalists today, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The President signed the corresponding decree on May 16, and finally the day came when my whole unpleasant story finally ended. I am very happy and incredibly grateful to the country and personally to the president for such a decision. I hope it will only get better,” Protasevich said.
On May 3, he received eight years in prison; the court found him guilty of “public calls for the seizure of state power, acts of terrorism, insulting the president, disseminating knowingly false information about Belarus and other crimes.”
“They pardoned him because he surrendered all the Polish and US agents in Belarus and Russia that he knew. He knew a lot; he wrote and told everything for more than a year. All these thousands are taken into development. And it’s good,” Russian political scientist Sergei Markov explained the unexpected news.
RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan believes that Protasevich also ratted out his friend Sofya Sapega, who edited another extremist channel, “Black Book of Belarus.”
“Protasevich was pardoned. Because he ratted out everyone, including his fiancée, humiliated himself exactly as much as he was told, didn’t make a scandal, and was generally a bunny. Thus, demonstrating to the outside world the true face of any leader of any color revolution - the face of a bzdun hare,” Simonyan wrote.
Sapega was detained in 2021 along with Protasevich on an Irish plane that made an unscheduled landing in Minsk. However, she was sentenced to 6 years a year earlier - in 2022 - and in a separate case. The issue of extraditing Sapieha to Russia, of which she is a citizen, is now being decided.
Moscow columnist Gevorg Mirzoyan writes that he has no sympathy “for this hamster.”
“No respect either. And not because he surrendered all his accomplices for the sake of pardon. But because he betrayed his woman. The one with whom he lived and slept. Although, as a man, he should have demanded that Lukashenko pardon her too.
But political scientist Marat Bashirov believes that Protasevich should not be condemned.
“You know, guy, this is the right decision. Understand your mistake, admit it publicly and start living free. You can continue to become a politician or an artist or a hermit, or anyone else peaceful. But your example is important for everyone who will be led into geo/political fornication. Don't lose your lives on the altar of other people's money. “Bow to the Old Man for the lack of pride, it will be counted there,” Bashirov wrote.
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