Zbigniew Bujak

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Zbigniew Bujak (born 29 November 1954) is a Polish activist and former anti-Communist dissident. He worked as an electrician at the Ursus tractor factory near Warsaw in 1980 and helped organize strike committees. He became chairman of the Warsaw Solidarity branch in September 1980 and narrowly avoided arrest when martial law was declared in 1981. He led parts of Solidarity’s underground movement, running underground press and radio. Bujak was arrested in 1986, the last Solidarity leader to be captured, but was released soon after in a general amnesty. He took part in the 1989 Round Table Talks and was elected to the Sejm (Polish parliament) that year.

In the 1990s, he joined liberal, right-wing parties and helped found the Labour Union (UP) in 1992. He was elected to the Sejm again in 1993 and served until 1997, also serving as the chairman of the Main Tariff Office. After losing the Warsaw mayoral race in 2002, he stepped back from active politics. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1986.