Anastasia Pavlovna Popko

Number of repressed:

47

Birthday:

13 december 1984

Anastasia Pavlovna Popko is involved in politically motivated repressions in the Republic of Belarus. Popko is responsible for the fact that, as a judge of the Minsk City Court, he handed down politically motivated sentences against representatives of civil society for a long period of time. In judicial practice, Anastasia Popko considers not only administrative cases, but also criminal ones. As a result of her decisions, Belarusians who opposed the current regime in the country were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. On September 28, 2022, the judge set sentences for six defendants in the case of the Busly Lyatsyats initiative: Alexey Ivanisov - 14 years in prison and a fine of 500 base, Alexey Gamezo - 14.5 years in prison and a fine of 500 base, Nikolai Biblis - 8.5 years in prison and a fine of 300 base, Andrey Budai - 15 years in prison and a fine of 500 basic, Alexander Muravyov and Alexander Sidorenko - 12 years in prison each. In 2021, Anastasia Papko sentenced Olga Zolotar, a political prisoner and mother of many children, to four years in prison for administering telegram chats. On November 10, 2021, she sentenced political prisoner Mykola Dziado to 5 years in a general regime colony. She also actively tried people for participating in the 2017 protests, and in 2021 she considered appeals in several political criminal cases and did not overturn a single sentence. Thus, Anastasia Pavlovna Popko bears personal responsibility for human rights violations and undermining the principles of the rule of law in the country, as well as for promoting repression against representatives of civil society and the democratic opposition. Her work within the judiciary is focused on maintaining the position of the existing government, rather than on enforcing the law. Popko's actions contribute to human rights violations, strengthening the power of Alexander Lukashenko and increasing politically motivated repression in the Republic of Belarus.