Stanislav Sergeevich Kovalev
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Kovalev Stanislav Sergeyevich is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. Guilty of using violence and creating inappropriate conditions of detention for political prisoners on the territory of Correctional Colony No. 4 in the city of Gomel. Exerted psychological pressure on women convicted for political reasons. Gave orders to the colony's operational staff to isolate, deny medical care and cruelly treat political prisoners. Involved in drawing up reports on violations for far-fetched reasons with the aim of sending them to a punishment cell or depriving them of parcels.
Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Kovalev Stanislav Sergeyevich is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. Guilty of using violence and creating inappropriate conditions of detention for political prisoners on the territory of Correctional Colony No. 4 in the city of Gomel. Exerted psychological pressure on women convicted for political reasons. Gave orders to the colony's operational staff to isolate, deny medical care and cruelly treat political prisoners. Involved in drawing up reports on violations for far-fetched reasons with the aim of sending them to a punishment cell or depriving them of parcels.
List of repressed
- Associations
- IT staff
Ksenia, an employee of the IT company Game Stream, was detained on March 11, 2023, in Minsk. According to security officials, in 2020–2021, she made nine payments to solidarity funds via Facebook donations, totaling $425. Pro-government Telegram channels published a video of the search, during which a white-red-white flag, $20,000, and office equipment were found and confiscated from Ksenia Alkenova.
In July of that year, she was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and taken to Ukraine.
According to the case materials , in December 2022, Tamara Karavai posted slanderous information about Alexander Lukashenko on the Internet via a messenger on the Odnoklassniki social network.
At the court hearing, Karavai fully admitted her guilt, but refused to testify.
It is known that Tamara Karavai has a minor child in her care. She was released on July 20, 2024, by pardon.
Tamara died in the spring of 2025. The woman's acquaintances reported her death to Nasha Niva . The official reason was that her heart gave out. The exact date of death is unknown, but Tamara was last online on VKontakte on April 23, 2025.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
According to the case materials , Olga Ivanchenko posted on her Odnoklassniki page in the public domain “text with an image containing deliberately false fabrications that disgrace Alexander Lukashenko, humiliate his honor and dignity, and are aimed at undermining his authority and creating a negative image.”
In addition, the woman posted “comments with a negative assessment of him, containing obscene language” under the post with an image of Alexander Lukashenko.
Olga has an autism spectrum disorder . After her arrest, she was held for about a month at the Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health in Novinki.
On 20.06.2023, the appeal was considered and the verdict came into force.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the fall of 2024.
- Associations
- Civil servants
- Parents of minors
39 year old Irena is a specialist of the Minsk City Agency for State Registration and Land Cadastre, she was detained in the summer of 2022. It is known that the woman has 4 minor children. Slander was charged with four articles of the Criminal Code.
- Associations
- Retirees
Pensioner. Was detained at home for commenting.
On February 27, 2023, the woman turned 68 years old, which she met in prison.
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6 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.
- Associations
- People with disabilities
She was sentenced to house chemistry for insulting A. Lukashenko. After that, she insulted Lukashenko again by phone, dialing 102. She has a leg disease, cannot move independently, and is disabled.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in January 2025.
- Associations
- Retirees
Natalia was first convicted in January 2023 for an online comment under the article "insulting a government official" and sentenced to one and a half years of restricted freedom, known as "house arrest."
In September of that year, Natalia was arrested again and convicted on a new criminal charge, accused of "financing extremist activity" for supporting political prisoners through money transfers.
On December 13, 2025, she was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and taken to Ukraine.
- Associations
- Administrators of TG-channels
According to the investigation, from August 20, 2020, to February 20, 2022, Tatyana used Telegram channels to call on chat participants to commit violent acts against government officials and law enforcement agencies. She also collected, systematized, and disseminated information about the victims' private lives without their consent, including prosecutors and judges, allegedly harming their rights and legitimate interests. Some of the messages concerned Lukashenko.
According to Baipol, Tatyana was lured by Belarusian intelligence services: a young man convinced her to return to Belarus, promising to resolve all issues, after which she was detained by the KGB in August 2022.
In March 2023, Tatyana was convicted on a number of charges, including "inciting other social hatred and discord" and "insult," and sentenced to imprisonment and a large compensation payment to the "victims."
On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, Keith Kellogg, and taken to Ukraine.
- Associations
- Service sector
Alexandra works as a manager at the logistics company Trans Solutions. The reason for the arrest was her photographs on Tinder, where she stands on the road with a white-red-white flag during one of the protest marches in 2020. The publication about the arrest appeared in one of the unofficial telegram channels of security forces. A “repentance” video was shot with the girl, where she confirms her participation in the protests. At first she was placed in a temporary detention facility, then a criminal case was opened against her.
On April 21, 2023, the appeal was considered, and the verdict came into force.
2,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Journalists
- Parents of minors
In 2021, she publicly announced that she was leaving journalism. She explained her departure by saying that she had already had enough of being persecuted for working without accreditation. According to police reports, the courts punished the journalist with administrative fines more than forty times, including for covering post-election protests. Only one day was not assigned, since Shchiryakova was raising a minor son alone.
This year, in September, after the arrest of her former colleague in the journalistic field, Yevgeny Merkis, Shchiryakova raised the issue of the journalist’s detention in a pre-trial detention facility in her posts on social networks, and posted messages on her social network pages about solidarity actions with Yevgeny that were being held abroad.
After Larisa was detained, her son was taken to a shelter straight from school.
According to the case materials, Larisa Shchyryakova allegedly posted information on the Internet that discredited the Republic of Belarus. She is also accused of "collecting, creating, processing, storing and transmitting information for" Viasna" and "Belsat".
On the 11th of April 2025 it became clear that the 52nd anniversary of the Belarusian Regime Promymusov moved to the territory of Lithuania. There are people and citizens of the European countries. Larysa Shchyrakova was summoned.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Citizen of the Russian Federation. Elena has two minor daughters (born in 2014 and 2015).
Before the trial, she was held in pretrial detention for 8 months .
In March 2023, it became known about Elena's serious condition in IK-4, where she was serving her sentence. "For example, when Elena was once in a very serious condition, she was not given medical care, although everything was extremely bad. She had a temperature of almost 40, she was delirious, then she started having problems with her joints, an abscess. But then she was not even assigned to the medical unit, the prisoners themselves took her there," said one of the former prisoners.
She was released on October 29, 2024, having served her entire sentence .
Elena was deported from Belarus.
- Associations
- Entrepreneurs
She was detained for participating in the 2020 protests in Grodno together with Lyudmila Mazurkevich. As a result, Natalia was sentenced to probation. In January 2024, Natalia was detained during a raid by security forces on relatives of political prisoners and people of solidarity. Natalia was not released.
As it became known from the court ruling, Anastasia, after the start of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, moved from Belarus to Poland. While in a neighboring country, she tried to donate $16.71 from her Belarusian bank account via Internet banking to the Kalinovsky regiment, but the transaction did not go through.
Later, the political prisoner decided to return to Belarus, where she was detained. It should be noted that at the time of the transfer of funds by Anastasia, the Kalinovsky regiment was not recognized as an "extremist formation."
According to human rights activists, she will be released in November 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
