Sofia Andreyevna Sapega (Russian: Софья Андреевна Сапега; born 10 February 1998) is a Russian student and former political prisoner who was arrested by Belarusian authorities in May 2021 along with Roman Protasevich after their flight Ryanair Flight 4978 was diverted to Minsk due to a false bomb threat.

[1] She studied law at the European Humanities University in Vilnius, Lithuania,[2] and was due to defend her master's thesis before she was arrested.

[2][6] Sapega's mother and several of her classmates told BBC News that she was not involved in the 2020–2021 Belarusian protests, and had been living in Vilnius since August 2020.

[7][8] In a 26 May 2021 speech in the Belarusian parliament, President Alexander Lukashenko labelled Protasevich and Sapega "agents of Western intelligence".

[15][16] On 7 June 2023, it was announced that Sapega had been pardoned by Lukashenko,[17] reportedly at the request of the Russian governor of Primorsky Krai, Oleg Kozhemyako, who led a delegation.