Paul Olegovich Popkov

Number of repressed:

2

Birthday:

16 may 1983

Accomplice to crimes against the rights and freedoms of citizens of Belarus. Popkov Pavel Olegovich is an employee of law enforcement agencies involved in politically motivated repressions. Acted as a state prosecutor in the case of a BSUIR student. He was accused of insulting a government official - the head of the 3rd department of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Mikhail Bedunkevich. On November 9, 2020, the student posted a text message in a yard chat "containing a public insult to a police colonel in an indecent form, humiliating his honor and dignity." Alexey fully admitted his guilt and repented, the lawyer asked to release him from criminal liability and bring him to administrative liability, but Popkov requested one and a half years of restricted freedom without being sent to a correctional facility. Acted as a state prosecutor in the case of Levon Khalatryan and requested two years of restricted freedom with being sent to an open-type correctional facility for participating in a protest. The man was severely beaten during his arrest.