Ольга Ситник. Фото: Victor Grigas, Wikimedia Commons
Forty-two-year-old Belarusian Wikipedia editor Volha Sitnik has been sentenced to “home confinement” and released from pre-trial detention, Nasha Niva reported. According to the outlet, the verdict was delivered in mid-December 2025.
Sitnik was detained in spring 2025 in a criminal case launched amid a crackdown on editors of the Belarusian Wikipedia.
Volha Sitnik has been an administrator of the Belarusian Wikipedia since 2010. Since 2009, she has written about Belarusian traditional culture and nature. She has three underage children.