Ernst (Ernest) Sabila (Belarusian: Эрнст Сабіла or Эрнэст Сабіла, born March 18, 1932) is a Belarusian Protestant religious leader, dissident and Gulag survivor. Born in the village Dziehciarouka (now part of Minsk District), he studied at the Minsk Medical Institute. In 1951, while still a student, he was arrested by Soviet authorities and accused of religious and nationalist propaganda. He was sentenced to death but the sentence was then replaced by a 25 years labour camp imprisonment. In the 1970s, he managed to receive a part-time degree at the Minsk State Linguistic University.