Former political prisonersForced displacement

Ivan Ivanovich Kovalenko

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Ivan was convicted under the articles “inciting hatred or discord” and “calls for actions aimed at causing harm to the national security of the Republic of Belarus” and sentenced to imprisonment.

On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.

Sentences

Trial outcome date unknown

unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.

Appeal date unknown

unknown.

Involved in repression

Alexey Valerievich Lazarenko

OthersOverseers29 june 1975

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Head of the correctional facility

Ivan Leonidovich Ignatenko

Overseers25 april 1984

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Correctional officer

Alesya Petrovna Brinevets

Overseers22 january 1980

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Correctional officer

Ilya Nikolaevich Kislyakov

Overseers25 december 1994

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Correctional officer

Artem Viktorovich Veselov

OverseersOthers7 august 1984

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Correctional officer

Denis Aleksandrovich Kovalev

Overseers17 october 2026

Place:: IK-15
Type:: Correctional officer

Andrey Mikhailovich Cedric

Overseers20 april 1978

Place:: SIZO-1 Kolyadichi
Type:: Head of the correctional facility

In custody:
Hometown:: Minsk
Birthday:: 24.11.1973
Was held in:: IK №15, 212013, Mogilev, p/o Veyno, Slavgorodskoye shosse 183
Articles:
Marks:

Timeline

2025
~01.04.2025
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions
~01.04.2025
Transfer
SIZO-1 Kolyadichi — In custody
~06.05.2025
Transfer
Turma №4 — In custody
~03.06.2025
Appeal date unknown
unknown
~17.06.2025
Transfer
IK-15 — In custody