Stanislav Sergeevich Kovalev
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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A Latvian citizen, Alla and a friend came to Belarus for a few days to undergo cosmetic surgery. As the women were leaving, they were detained by KGB officers. After her release, Alla recounted : " During interrogation, it was revealed that I had been taken hostage to be exchanged for a Belarusian who was in Latvia. They told me directly, 'Tell your people that the Belarusians need their man.' They wanted my relatives to contact the Latvian security services to arrange the exchange. My friend, a Russian citizen, was released on the third day, but I remained a Latvian citizen."
Alla was accused of traveling to Belarus for intelligence purposes under the guise of cosmetic surgery. According to investigators, she collected intelligence on behalf of her Latvian intelligence handlers, spied, and even recruited Belarusian servicemen for the Ukrainian army. Her trial began in the Minsk City Court on September 29, 2023. She is accused of being an agent.
On December 19, 2023, the appeal was heard.
On December 13, 2025, she was released after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
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According to the prosecution , Olga Stabrovskaya in 2021 liked and left a short comment on the Odnoklassniki social network, in which the examination “found” an insult to Alexander Lukashenko.
Olga Stabrovskaya at one time received a diploma from the only Moscow State University of Printing in the entire former Soviet Union and worked at the Orsha printing house until her retirement. Recently, the woman’s illness has worsened and she has a third group disability. Her only daughter is also sick. She, like Olga’s grandson, has a hearing disability.
1 year 3 months imprisonment in a general regime colony.
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Svetlana is a pensioner and cycling activist from Gomel, chairman of the regional public association “VeloGomel”. Previously, Korol worked as a teacher-organizer. In 2020, a woman joined the Gomel Coordination Council.
According to Viasna , security forces detained Korol in 2020 and conducted “preventive conversations.” At home, Svetlana has an old mother and a husband with cancer, whom she cares for.
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crisis psychologist, consulting psychologist and therapist on problems of relationships and personal development, psychology teacher. She was detained for comments on the Internet and donation.
At the trial , Alesya Lyantsevich agreed that it was she who made the donations, but rejected the “extremist” motives and insults attributed to her by the prosecution. At the same time, the statute of limitations on this article has long expired.
At the court hearing on September 21, the state prosecution requested that Lentsevich be imprisoned for a term of four years.
Detained for comments on social networks.
Alla was accused of leaving comments in a telegram for two years - from October 2020 to September 2022. They allegedly contained insults to Lukashenko and police officers and “obscene language and expressed a negative assessment of government officials.” Zueva admitted guilt.
Alla has a blood cancer; the court did not take this into account when passing the verdict.
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2.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
The Minsk resident was accused of participating in protests in 2020 (8 episodes), going out onto the roadway and blocking public transport. She indicated a partial admission of guilt, but did not actually admit guilt and did not recant her testimony. The woman reported that she took part in the protests as a third-party observer, not as a participant. And she went out onto the roadway solely for the purpose of taking photographs, Inna said in court.
Inna Bogdanova has a higher education and worked as a legal adviser at the territorial center for social services. She was held in custody before the trial.
She was released on August 20, 2024, after being pardoned.
2 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
2 years imprisonment in a colony
Natalia was convicted in August 2023 in a criminal case opened under the articles "organizing group actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them" and "assisting extremist activity," and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
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.
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January 2023 security officials drew attention to the pages of the pensioner in social networks: there they found subscriptions to “extremist” information resources, reposts from them, as well as images of white-red-white flags and “chase”, caricatures of Lukashenko and Putin reprinted from various sources. The woman's home was searched and her mobile phone was confiscated.
On October 13, 2023, the appeal was considered. The verdict came into force.
It is known that Irina’s mother is disabled 2 degrees, musculoskeletal system, pensioner, 75 years old. Doesn't leave the house.
The sister is on long-term sick leave after spinal surgery.
Natalia was detained upon her return to Belarus and convicted of “participating in group actions that grossly violate public order” and “calls for sanctions.” Her Telegram account was linked to a personal Belarusian number, so she could be found through her comments.
She was released under a pardon in December 2024.
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