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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In custody: 506 days
Hometown: Shumilino
Date of birth: 14.05.1999
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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On November 21, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.

Trial outcome 12.09.2023
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 21.11.2023
unknown.
Alla Sokolenko
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In custody: ~1362 days
folder Categories of cases: Anti-war campaigns
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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.

Trial outcome 09.10.2023
7 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 12.12.2023
unknown.
Olga Vladimirovna Stabrovskaya
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In custody: 409 days
Hometown: Orsha
Date of birth: 08.12.1959
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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.

Trial outcome 27.09.2023:

1 year 3 months imprisonment in a general regime colony.

Svetlana Nikolaevna Korol
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In custody: ~418 days
Hometown: Papanin
Date of birth: 19.02.1961
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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.

Trial outcome 28.03.2024
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 31.05.2024
unknown.
Alesya Vladimirovna Lyantsevich
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In custody: ~453 days
folder Categories of cases: Donate
Hometown: Brest
Date of birth: 14.08.1979
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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.

Trial outcome 27.09.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 28.11.2023
the sentence was upheld.
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In custody: 428 days
Hometown: Babruysk
Date of birth: 18.07.1961
Guardian: Anna Komar
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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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Trial outcome 29.09.2023:

2.5 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.

Former political prisoners
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In custody: ~476 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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.

Trial outcome 19.09.2023
1 year 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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Hometown: Minsk
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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On November 21, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.

Trial outcome 11.09.2023:

2 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.

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In custody: ~459 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 26.03.1974
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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On November 21, 2023, an appeal hearing was held.

Trial outcome 08.09.2023
4 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 21.11.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: 386 days
Hometown: Mogilev
Date of birth: 10.12.1979
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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On November 30, 2023, an appeal hearing was held. The verdict came into force.

Trial outcome 05.09.2023:

2 years imprisonment in a colony

Former political prisoners
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In custody: 920 days
folder Categories of cases: Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Kobryn
Date of birth: 08.08.1983
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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.

Trial outcome 31.08.2023
3 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 14.11.2023
the sentence was upheld.
Zoya Baranava
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In custody: 384 days
Hometown: Shumilino
Date of birth: 03.09.1958
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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.

Trial outcome 30.08.2023
unknown 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: ~616 days
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 12.07.1975
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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.

Trial outcome 03.08.2023
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 13.10.2023
unknown.
Former political prisoners
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In custody: 517 days
folder Categories of cases: Return to Belarus, Protests 2020, Minsk
Hometown: Minsk
Date of birth: 14.08.1984
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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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.

Trial outcome 20.05.2024
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Appeal 09.08.2024
the sentence was upheld.
Anna Yuryevna Skrigan
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In custody: ~489 days
folder Categories of cases: Return to Belarus
Hometown: Mogilev
Date of birth: 28.03.1976
Was in: IK-4IK-4, ul. Antoshkina, 3, 246035, Gomel
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Candidate of Geographical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Life Safety, Belarusian-Russian University in Mogilev, ecologist.

Trial outcome 23.08.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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