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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
The wife of Anatoly Anatolyevich Bogovik, former executive director of Belarusbank. They were detained for participating in the 2020 protests and charged with participating in the 2020 protests.
On 20.10.2023, the appeal was heard. The verdict came into force.
The Bogoviks have two children to support.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in 2025.
Trial outcome 09.08.2023
2 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
In the summer of 2025, she suffered from pneumonia and was hospitalized in the medical unit.
On March 19, 2026, she was pardoned after another visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole (among a group of 235 prisoners left in Belarus).
Trial outcome 30.06.2023
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Zhanna was arrested on May 11, 2023, right at School No. 63, where she had come to meet her child's teacher. In October of that year, she was convicted on several criminal charges, including "inciting hatred."
According to media reports, during the 2020 protests, police detained her on administrative charges.
According to human rights activists, Zhanna was expected to be released in the winter of 2026.
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