Iryna Kovalchuk

Number of repressed:

0

Birthday:

15 november 1965

Iryna Alekseevna Kovalchuk acted as the state’s representative in the case on the liquidation of the Belarusian PEN Centre, headed by Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. The liquidation claim was filed by the Ministry of Justice on 22 July 2021. On 9 August 2021, the Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus ruled to liquidate the organisation. The actions of Iryna Alekseevna Kovalchuk are regarded as complicity in politically motivated repression against cultural figures and in the violation of the right to freedom of association.