Guilty of all the atrocities that took place in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 6. These include beatings of detainees, including children, in the first days after the election, abuse of defendants in the Pinsk case and other political prisoners. Separately, it is worth noting the multiple violations of the rights of supporters of change serving administrative arrest. These people were beaten, deprived of parcels and letters, and kept in overcrowded cells.
Guilty of all the atrocities that took place in Pre-trial Detention Center No. 6. These include beatings of detainees, including children, in the first days after the election, abuse of defendants in the Pinsk case and other political prisoners. Separately, it is worth noting the multiple violations of the rights of supporters of change serving administrative arrest. These people were beaten, deprived of parcels and letters, and kept in overcrowded cells.
Vadim was first convicted in December 2021 for publicly insulting a prosecutor and sentenced to restricted freedom without referral.
Vadim worked for a long time as a design engineer at Peleng, in the 20th Directorate, in the electronic systems support sector. He and his colleagues developed equipment for the Russian military, including tank sights.
In September 2024, Vadim was arrested following a KGB raid on the company. In 2025, he was convicted of "inciting hatred or discord" and "calls for sanctions and other actions aimed at harming national security" and sentenced to imprisonment. Case details are unknown.
On December 13, 2025, he was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Olga Sitnik is a housewife from Minsk who is raising three minor children. Since 2009, she has been writing on Wikipedia about Belarusian traditional culture and nature, as well as on topics such as breastfeeding. More than two dozen of her articles have been awarded the status of "good" or "excellent". Since 2010, she has been the administrator of the Belarusian Wikipedia. Olga Sitnik has made hundreds of thousands of edits to Wikipedia and created thousands of articles for it.
She was arrested in May 2025. The nature of the charges is unknown, but it appears that Sitnik is involved in a criminal case with other Belarusian Wikipedia administrators who are now behind bars.
Trial outcome date unknown
unknown years restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
Anna was arrested in the fall of 2024 as part of a criminal case opened under the articles "organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them," "calls for actions aimed at harming the national security of the Republic of Belarus," and "inciting hostility or discord." She was convicted in 2025 for donations and sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony.
Anna worked in banking for a long time, in customer service departments; most recently, at Trade Capital Bank (TK Bank). She ran a TikTok channel about how to take out loans and choose housing.
On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
Kristina was arrested in November 2024 and later, probably in mid-2025, convicted under the articles “inciting hatred and discord” and “organizing and preparing actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them” and sentenced to imprisonment.
On December 13, 2025, she was released following a visit to Minsk by US President Donald Trump's special representative, John Cole, and taken to Ukraine.
It's unclear exactly when Marina was detained, but she last appeared on social media in mid-October 2024. Her extremist listing indicates she is currently serving a sentence, meaning she either received a probationary sentence or a prison colony. However, judging by the fact that she hasn't appeared online since her trial, it's likely Marina Luts was sentenced to a prison colony.
From 2014 until the end of 2022, she ran her own business organizing weddings and other events. In 2023, she retrained as a UX/UI designer, working primarily as a freelancer. Marina has a young son.
According to human rights activists, she will be released in the summer of 2025.
Trial outcome date unknown
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
One of the oldest active editors of the Belarusian Wikipedia section and the most experienced administrator. He focused mainly on the ancient history of Belarus, but spent most of his time maintaining order in the section and moderating disputes.
The detention of Maxim Lepushenko is not the first case of recent repressions directed against authors and editors of the Belarusian Wikipedia. The detentions of several Belarusian Wikipedia administrators over several months appear to be part of a coordinated campaign, as indicated by the unfounded attacks from propagandists: - In April, administrator Olga Sitnik (Khomelka) disappeared; she was detained twice. - In December 2024, the editor of Stary Jolup was detained. - In March 2025, Kazimier LachnoviΔ (real name unknown) disappeared - one of the four administrators of the section on Tarashkevitsa. A week after the disappearance of the administrator Kazimier LachnoviΔ, propaganda material by Lyudmila Gladkaya was released, in which it was said that Wikipedia is a weapon of mass destruction against the countries of the post-Soviet space, and the Belarusian section is edited from Poland.
Trial outcome 08.08.2025
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
He worked as a tinsmith at a private firm. When the 2020 election campaign began, he attended signature-collecting pickets, then marches. In the fall of 2020, Alexander was detained by KGB officers and sentenced to 15 days in jail. After that, he was repeatedly summoned for "interviews": "They took a polygraph test in connection with a case involving a broken window, conducted by some judge or investigator," he recalls .
In January 2025, officers from the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) visited him at work and took him to the Pervomaisky District Police Department. He was sentenced to 10 days in a temporary detention facility. A criminal case was then opened for participating in protests and he was transferred to a prison in Kolyadichi, where he spent two months before his trial.
Trial outcome 21.03.2025
2 years 6 months restrictions of freedom without referral to an open-type correctional facility.
The girl posted her last photo on social media on November 18, 2024, from Turkey. After that, she went to Belarus — that’s probably when she was detained. She hasn’t appeared online on Telegram for a long time, and her social media has been inactive since November. The girl is probably now in a pretrial detention center.
After graduating from MSLU, Veronica worked for three years as a flight attendant at Qatar Airways. Veronica's other passion is modeling and acting.
In mid-August 2025, information appeared that Veronica was already at large. She posted a photo from the Philippines.
Trial outcome 04.03.2025
1 year of imprisonment in colony under general regime conditions.
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