A student captured by Belarus when it forced down a civilian airliner last year in what western countries called an act of state piracy has released a letter from jail confessing to illegal actions and pleading for clemency.
Sofia Sapega, 24, a Russian citizen living in Lithuania, was arrested along with her then-boyfriend, exiled Belarus dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, when their Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius was forced to land in Minsk in May last year.
