Stanislav Sergeevich Kovalev
Stanislav Sergeevich Kovalev
Number of repressed: 292
Date of birth: 12 december 1984
Categories: Overseers

An accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Stanislav Sergeyevich Kovalev is a law enforcement officer involved in politically motivated repression.
Guilty of using violence and creating inappropriate conditions for political prisoners at Penal Colony No. 4 in Gomel. For a long time, he served as the colony's deputy warden for security and operational work. In August 2024, he became the warden of Penal Colony No. 4 and received the rank of colonel.
He exerted psychological pressure on women convicted for political reasons. He ordered the colony's operational staff to isolate, deny medical care, and cruelly treat political prisoners. He was involved in filing reports of violations on trumped-up grounds, with the aim of sending them to solitary confinement or depriving them of food parcels. He made monthly decisions on sending political prisoners to solitary confinement, including Veronika Kazak, Yulia Yurgelevich, Nastya Kukhta, Natalya Matveyeva, Nasta Loyko, Natalya Dulina, Maria Kolesnikova, Lyudmila Chekina, Olga Radionova, 70-year-old Irina Merkhel, and many others. He also ordered human rights activist Nasta Loyko to be sent to a punishment cell for the maximum sentence (after six months).

An accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of Belarusian citizens. Stanislav Sergeyevich Kovalev is a law enforcement officer involved in politically motivated repression.
Guilty of using violence and creating inappropriate conditions for political prisoners at Penal Colony No. 4 in Gomel. For a long time, he served as the colony's deputy warden for security and operational work. In August 2024, he became the warden of Penal Colony No. 4 and received the rank of colonel.
He exerted psychological pressure on women convicted for political reasons. He ordered the colony's operational staff to isolate, deny medical care, and cruelly treat political prisoners. He was involved in filing reports of violations on trumped-up grounds, with the aim of sending them to solitary confinement or depriving them of food parcels. He made monthly decisions on sending political prisoners to solitary confinement, including Veronika Kazak, Yulia Yurgelevich, Nastya Kukhta, Natalya Matveyeva, Nasta Loyko, Natalya Dulina, Maria Kolesnikova, Lyudmila Chekina, Olga Radionova, 70-year-old Irina Merkhel, and many others. He also ordered human rights activist Nasta Loyko to be sent to a punishment cell for the maximum sentence (after six months).

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Ivanna Vasilevna Bogovik
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Request letters Bank of letters 4
In custody: ~607 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Berezan, Ukraine
Date of birth: 05.06.1984
Number of children: 2 children
Family members: Anatoly Anatolevich Bogovik
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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The wife of Anatoly Anatolyevich Bogovik, former executive director of Belarusbank. They were detained for participating in the 2020 protests and charged with participating in the 2020 protests.

On 20.10.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.

The Bogoviks have two children to support.

According to human rights activists, she will be released in 2025.

Trial outcome 09.08.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 20.10.2023
unknown.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~649 days
Hometown: Pleschenicy
Date of birth: 31.05.2002
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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On November 3, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

Trial outcome 03.08.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 03.11.2023
unknown.
Katsiaryna Jyh
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In custody: ~466 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 07.03.1971
Number of children: 4 children
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Suspended for social media comments. Ekaterina has 4 children, one of them is a minor, the eldest daughter has a disability of the 2nd group.

Trial outcome 07.09.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 24.11.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~487 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 07.04.1974
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Olga was taken into custody on charges of donating to initiatives recognized as extremist.

Her trial began in July 2023.

Trial outcome 24.07.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 26.09.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Sviatlana Vasilyeuna Paluektava
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In custody: 475 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 27.02.1986
Number of children: 2 children
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Svetlana was convicted for her comments and participation in protests.

Released on July 20, 2024, after being pardoned.

Trial outcome 07.07.2023:

2.5 years in prison

Olesya Vyacheslavovna Shapkina
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In custody: ~1106 days
folder Categories of cases: Donate
Hometown: Krasnaya Sloboda
Date of birth: 30.12.1988
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Programmer at SamSolutions.

On September 15, 2023, the appeal was heard.

In the summer of 2025, she suffered from pneumonia and was hospitalized in the medical unit.

On March 19, 2026, she was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).

Trial outcome 30.06.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 30.06.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Jeanne Petrovna Volkova
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Request letters Bank of letters 11
In custody: 970 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests Gomel 2020
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 04.07.1979
Number of children: 2 children
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Zhanna was arrested on May 11, 2023, right at School No. 63, where she had come to meet her child's teacher. In October of that year, she was convicted on several criminal charges, including "inciting hatred."

According to media reports, during the 2020 protests, police detained her on administrative charges.

According to human rights activists, Zhanna was expected to be released in the winter of 2026.

Trial outcome 18.10.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 05.01.2024
the sentence was upheld.
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In custody: 566 days
Hometown: Navapolatsk
Date of birth: 20.10.1980
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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According to the case materials , in February 2022, she posted a comment that "insulted and humiliated the honor and dignity" of Podvoisky, Melnik, and Kozlov and "was aimed at undermining the authority of government officials." After the publication of a video on the CyberSlivy Telegram channel with a leaked telephone conversation between Podvoisky, Melnik, and Kozlov from September 2020, which became evidence that the police were telling judges what decisions to make for participants in peaceful protests. More than two dozen people left comments under it, including Ekaterina Lev. Ekaterina was detained a year later - on February 1, 2023.

Released on August 20, 2024, after being pardoned.

Trial outcome 30.05.2023:

2 years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

Natalia Eduardovna ZhlobΠΎ
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Request letters Bank of letters 9
In custody: ~513 days
folder Categories of cases: Donate
Hometown: Maladzyechna
Date of birth: 21.05.1975
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Natalia Zhlobo works as a senior lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literature of the Faculty of English at Moscow State Linguistic University.

The arrest took place at the end of March, and since then Natalya has been in jail. The exact reason for the detention, as well as the number of the criminal article, is still unknown, but we are talking about a political case .

On October 6, 2023, an appeal hearing was held and the verdict came into force.

Trial outcome 31.07.2023
3 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 06.10.2023
unknown.
Victoria Anatolievna Gavrilina
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Request letters Bank of letters 14
In custody: 586 days
Hometown: Kostyukovka
Date of birth: 06.01.1983
Number of children: 2 children
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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The ONT TV channel showed a “repentance” video with Victoria. A criminal case was opened against her and she was placed in custody. In the story, she is accused of evading taxes, subscribing to “extremist” channels, leaking data from security forces, participating in the Peramoga plan, and financing extremist activities. The court found Victoria guilty of providing funds to knowingly support the activities of an extremist group, deliberately illegally collecting and providing information about the private life and personal data of another person without his consent.

Together with Victoria, her husband Dmitry was detained, who served 30 days of administrative arrest and was released.

Dmitry is the director of the Gomel Motor Repair Plant, the vocalist of the ethno-group “Ban-Graviyba”, and Victoria is an entrepreneur. They are also famous dancers.

Trial outcome 18.09.2023:

3 years 3 months imprisonment in a colony under general regime conditions

Ksenia Alexandrovna Alkenova
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Request letters Bank of letters 10
In custody: 1008 days
folder Categories of cases: Donate
Hometown: Zhodzina
Date of birth: 26.10.1986
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.

Trial outcome 12.07.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 29.09.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Former political prisoners
In custody: ~593 days
Hometown: Malye Chuchevichi
Date of birth: 08.12.1979
Number of children: 1 child
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
23.04.2025 She was sentenced to 2 years in prison for "slandering" Lukashenko. On August 20, 2025, she was pardoned (after serving 1 year and 9 months). She died in the spring of 2025. The official reason was that her heart gave out.
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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.

Trial outcome 29.03.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Olga Pavlovna Zhelobkova
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Request letters Bank of letters 11
In custody: ~719 days
Hometown: Gomel
Date of birth: 24.12.1989
Number of children: 2 children
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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According to human rights activists , she will be released in the spring of 2025.

Trial outcome 24.03.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 09.06.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Former political prisoners
Request letters Bank of letters 6
In custody: ~652 days
Hometown: Mogilev
Date of birth: 20.07.1990
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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.

Trial outcome 21.03.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 20.06.2023
unknown.
Irena Iosifovna Klevets
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Request letters Bank of letters 7
In custody: ~899 days
folder Categories of cases: Black Book of Belarus
Hometown: Slonim
Date of birth: 18.08.1983
Number of children: 4 children
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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.

Trial outcome 28.03.2023
6 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 25.07.2023
unknown.
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