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).
List of repressed
Lawyer. She was arrested in early June 2022, two days after her 40th birthday, for leaking data to Telegram channels. Law enforcement officers arrived to detain her with automatic weapons and body armor—they climbed through the windows and broke down the door.
In March 2023, it became known that she was also charged under Article 203-1 of the Criminal Code (Illegal Actions in Relation to Private Information) and Part 1 of Article 342 of the Criminal Code. According to investigators, she allegedly organized an "unauthorized mass event" when she held a consultation near Okrestina in August 2020.
She is survived by an elderly father and a 19-year-old son, who has suffered from Crohn's disease since he was 16.
On October 3, 2023, the appeal was heard.
On September 16, 2026, she was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
74 year old Natalia was accused and found guilty of slander and insulting A.G. Lukashenko, as well as insulting an public officer on duty. Details of the criminal process are unknown. The court was closed.
It is only known that before the verdict of the court, the woman was on recognizance. Natalia Taran was taken into custody right in the courtroom.
3,5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony of general regime.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
She was detained in the morning when she was going to go to work with her husband. Accused of participating in protests. The trial was held behind closed doors.
The family has three children.
- Associations
She is a Student of «Mogilev State University Kuleshov's name».
According to the prosecution, the girl reposted a publication in the chat criticizing the actions of Putin and Lukashenko with calls to go outside if the Belarusian army enters the war.
Olga Novikova and her husband Viktor were sentenced to imprisonment for participating in protests in 2020 (Article 342 of the Criminal Code). It is noteworthy that her 35-year-old husband Viktor Novikov was also released on pardon, but on July 3.
3 years of imprisonment in a general regime colony.
- Associations
Veterinarian.
After serving her administrative arrest, she was detained on criminal charges; on April 4, 2022, she was convicted of participating in seven Sunday Marches over the course of two months from August 23 to October 25, 2020.
The girl admitted her guilt in court and that she actually took part in them.
On August 28, 2024, she was released, having fully served the sentence imposed by the court.
- Associations
- Teachers
A former teacher from Khoyniki was accused of videotaping the movement of a column of military equipment, and then sent the recording to the telegram channel «Belaruski Gayun».
Detained for a comment on social media (in connection with a criminal case on insulting Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Nikolai Karpenkov).
In the colony, Irina broke her hip and now cannot walk properly.
She was released on pardon on December 28 , 2024. Irina had approximately two months left before her release.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
According to the channels supporting the current government in the Republic of Belarus, she was detained under a criminal article for transmitting a video with the movement of military equipment to a telegram channel recognized as an extremist formation in the Republic of Belarus.
Anna has a juvenile daughter.
- Associations
- Activists
Social activist from Minsk.
She was detained on February 17, 2022, at her place of residence.
Her home was searched. Initially, she was sentenced to administrative arrest, but Anastasia was not released after that.
On September 10, 2026, she was released , having fully served her sentence.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
Detained on March 6, 2022 for comments in Telegram channels.
The hearings were held behind closed doors. It is known that Judge Nikolai Dolya sentenced the woman to imprisonment , the length of which is being determined by human rights activists.
She was released in the fall of 2024, having fully served her sentence as determined by the court.
- Associations
- Parents of minors
According to the case materials , in January 2021, Gavrilov purchased and provided two acquaintances, Tatyana and Oleg Birulya, with aerosol cans of paint. After which, from January to February 2021, the latter applied inscriptions and drawings to various infrastructure objects in Soligorsk, "causing them to become damaged." They also applied an inscription to the wall of one of the houses regarding Lukashenko, "in which they accused him of a particularly serious crime, that is, they committed slander."
Then, from August to December 2021, the accused distributed leaflets and other printed materials in Soligorsk . The content of these leaflets was allegedly aimed at inciting social hatred and discord on the basis of a different social affiliation.
At the end of winter 2024, it became known that Tatyana was being transferred to a prison in Zhodino.
- Associations
- Twice political prisoners
- Parents of minors
She was detained for drawing "Pahonia" stencils. On September 20, the Central District Court of Minsk sentenced three political prisoners: Anatoly Latushka, the cousin of politician Pavel Latushko, Lilia Ananyan, and Elena Malinovskaya. At the trial, Latushko and Malinovskaya pleaded not guilty, while Ananyan fully admitted her guilt. Judge Dmitry Karsyuk sentenced Anatoly to six years in prison, Elena to four years in prison, and Lilia to five years of house arrest, before releasing her in the courtroom.
Elena has a minor son left at home.
Elena was supposed to be released at the end of August 2025, but she was never released. As Elena's friends told Nasha Niva , she was transported to Minsk, where a new criminal case was opened against her .
In early March, Elena was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison. Because she had already served over four years behind bars, the court counted this time toward her sentence, so she was released during the trial.
- Associations
- Activists
- Parents of minors
An activist from the European Belarus movement was detained on December 30, 2021, in connection with a criminal case alleging group actions that grossly violated public order.
On January 7, 2022, the woman was transferred to a pre-trial detention facility.
Elena has a little son.
In January 2023, Elena was transferred to Gomel Women's Colony No. 4. For a long time, a lawyer was unable to see the political prisoner; she was placed in solitary confinement.
In October 2023, it became known that Elena's package had not been accepted in August. This likely indicates that she had been deprived of her packages. The last letter from Elena arrived in early September, and no letters have been received since. Since Lazarchik's transfer to the penal colony, the prison administration has not granted permission to meet with a lawyer. Elena's current situation and her current condition are unknown. Elena is experiencing dental problems in the colony and has lost weight.
In mid-November 2023, human rights activists learned that Elena had been placed in solitary confinement again.
According to the testimony of the former political prisoner, Elena served more than 90 days in a punishment cell and more than 60 days in a PKT .
In the spring of 2025, Elena was convicted under Part 2 of Article 411 of the Criminal Code (malicious disobedience to the lawful demands of the prison administration) and sentenced to an additional eighteen months in prison in addition to her eight years in prison. The date of the sentence is unknown. It is known that Elena refused legal representation at her trial.
On September 16, 2026, she was released after a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Lithuania.
