Former political prisonersForced displacement

Vital Siarheyevich Bandaruk

Dissidentby since
Viasna since

resident of Kamenets district. According to the position of the state prosecution, Vitaliy Bondaruk committed crimes under these articles by publishing comments and one video on social networks from August 2020 to March 2021.

In January 2024 he was transferred to prison regime.

On September 11, 2025, it became known that 52 prisoners of the Belarusian regime were forcibly transferred to the territory of Lithuania. Among them are citizens of European countries. Among those released is Vitaly Bondaruk.

Sentences

Trial outcome 25.10.2021
5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
Regime change trial 20.01.2024
prison regime until the end of the term.

Involved in repression

Alexander Vladimirovich Kornienko
Alexander Vladimirovich Kornienko
Overseers9 january 1978
Place:
IK-17
Type:
Head of the correctional facility
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Vital Siarheyevich Bandaruk
In custody:
Hometown:
Brest
Birthday:
18.02.1975
Was held in:
Turma №4, Mogilev, Krupskaya 99A, 212011
Articles:
Marks:

Timeline

  1. 2021
  2. ~14.04.2021

    Transfer

    IK-17 — In custody

  3. 25.10.2021

    Trial outcome 25.10.2021

    5 years of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions, Brest Regional Court

  4. 2024
  5. 20.01.2024

    Regime change trial 20.01.2024

    prison regime until the end of the term

  6. 20.01.2024

    Transfer

    Turma №4 — In custody

  7. 2025
  8. 11.09.2025

    Status change

    Forced displacement