Not only did they write the arrest report while at the police station, but it was also a forced "repentance" video. I really didn't want to do it. We recorded it twice because I kept stuttering. At first they actually wanted to hang the red-green flag of Belarus behind me, but I refused to write anything on its background. Then Gaiko (Artur Gaiko, member of the Gubernia party, ed.) said: "Damn it, take this Belarusian flag. Now there will be a text, she will say it - and that's it, we're leaving." One of the GUBOPiK employees, a short man, bluntly said: "Either you read the text, or we will beat you here now." I have never been beaten at home, and I did not want to be beaten in this place. In the end I read everything they gave me. It seems that from the video itself it was perfectly clear that I was simply speaking text by mouth and not saying it of my own free will. Sofia Sepga gave Zarkalo her first major interview about what happened after the plane landed in Minsk - we're publishing her version of what happened then. link not working? Try it, from Belarus - with a VPN. Download our app for Android or iOS.

Not only did they write the arrest report while at the police station, but it was also a forced "repentance" video. I really didn't want to do it. We recorded it twice because I kept stuttering. At first they actually wanted to hang the red-green flag of Belarus behind me, but I refused to write anything on its background. Then Gaiko (Artur Gaiko, member of the Gubernia party, ed.) said: "Damn it, take this Belarusian flag. Now there will be a text, she will say it - and that's it, we're leaving." One of the GUBOPiK employees, a short man, bluntly said: "Either you read the text, or we will beat you here now." I have never been beaten at home, and I did not want to be beaten in this place. In the end I read everything they gave me. It seems that from the video itself it was perfectly clear that I was simply speaking text by mouth and not saying it of my own free will. Sofia Sepga gave Zarkalo her first major interview about what happened after the plane landed in Minsk - we're publishing her version of what happened then. link not working? Try it, from Belarus - with a VPN. Download our app for Android or iOS.