Dzmitry Bunevich
sentenced to 2 years and 1 month in prison
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 5 December 1992
Date of detention: 12 March 2021
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
- Art. 411 — Malicious disobedience to the demands of administration of the correctional institution
Sentence: 2 years and 1 month
Penalty: imprisonment in a general-security penal colony
Date of release: 15 November 2023
Judge: Dzmitryi Shuryn
Prosecutor: Mikhail Yushchuk, Stsiapan Liashok
Cases: The round dance case
Dzmitry Bunevich is a resident of Brest targeted in a criminal case opened after the dancing protest of September 13, 2020.
Dzmitry Bunevich was initially at large as a suspect in the case (under Article 342 of the Criminal Code—'Active participation in group actions that grossly violate public order'). On March 12, 2021, he was detained and remanded in custody pending sentencing. On March 15, Bunevich was sentenced to 1 year and 8 months in a general-security penal colony.
The political prisoner was in remand prison #7 in Brest. In November 2021, it became known that he had been transferred to penal colony #15 in Mahilioŭ.
In April 2023, it became known that Dzmitry had been sentenced to another 5 months in a penal colony under Article 411 of the Criminal Code ('Malicious disobedience to the requirements of the penal colony administration').
He was expected to be released at the end of his sentence in the autumn of 2023, according to human rights defenders.
