Former political prisonersReleased

Sergey Vyacheslavovich Bunata

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

Sergey is an entrepreneur. Since 2022, he has been repeatedly charged with "dissemination of extremist materials" for forwarding news from the NEXTA channel to Telegram and liking the "STOP LUKA" community on Odnoklassniki.

Following the August 2020 elections in Belarus, Sergei posted a call to stop trains in order to destabilize the country's economic situation on the Telegram channel "Railwaymen of Belarus" (later deemed extremist). He was arrested for this, and in April 2024, he was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.

In the fall of 2025, he was released, having fully served his sentence imposed by the court.

Sentences

Trial outcome 11.04.2024

2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.

Appeal 11.06.2024

the sentence was upheld.

Involved in repression

Andrey Leonidovich Leshchenko

Judges23 april 1972

Place:: Brest Regional Court
Type:: Court of First Instance
Date:: 11.04.2024

Maksim Yurievich Filatov

Judges23 august 1979

Place:: Brest Regional Court
Type:: Appeal
Date:: 11.06.2024

Artem Leonidovich Podolyanets

Judges4 october 1987

Place:: The Court of Baranovichi District and the city of Baranovichi
Type:: Administrative case
Date:: 01.09.2023

Oksana Alexandrovna Kopach

Judges19 february 1981

Place:: The Court of Baranovichi District and the city of Baranovichi
Type:: Administrative case
Date:: 08.04.2022

Victor Anatolyevich Rupeka

Overseers27 december 1979

Place:: SIZO-7
Type:: Head of the correctional facility

In custody:
Case categories:: Baranovichi protests 2020
Hometown:: Baranovichi
Birthday:: 18.06.1976
Number of children:: 1
Was held in:: IK №2, 213800, Bobruysk, ul. Sikorskogo, 1
Articles:
Groups:: EntrepreneursParents of minors
Marks:

Timeline

2022
08.04.2022
Administrative court
Administrative arrest (10 days), The Court of Baranovichi District and the city of Baranovichi, judge Oksana Alexandrovna Kopach
2023
18.08.2023
Administrative court
Administrative arrest (15 days), The Court of Baranovichi District and the city of Baranovichi
31.08.2023
Transfer
SIZO-7 — In custody
01.09.2023
Administrative court
Administrative arrest (15 days), The Court of Baranovichi District and the city of Baranovichi, judge Artem Leonidovich Podolyanets
2024
11.04.2024
Trial outcome 11.04.2024
2 years 6 months of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, Brest Regional Court