On 11 March 2022, Mark Izraylevich Bernstein, a Belarusian blogger and contributor to the Russian Wikipedia based in Minsk, was detained by GUBOPiK personnel after online accusations of violating the
Bernstein in 2013
Bernstein (holding microphone) at Moscow's WikiConference on 14 September 2014
Wikipedia has been censored by a number of governments, including, but not limited to, those of Belarus, China, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turk
Detention of Mark Bernstein
…Censorship in the Russian Federation Censorship of Wikipedia Wikipedia and the Russian invasion of Ukraine…
Example of Saudi Arabian ISP blocking a website
Rémi Mathis, an administrator on the French Wikipedia, was ordered by the French interior intelligence agency to delete an article.