Darya Liauko
IT specialist, convicted
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 7 October 1998
Date of detention: 7 May 2022
Charges indicted:
- Art. 342 of the Criminal Code — Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them
Sentence: coercive mental treatment
Penalty: compulsory psychiatric treatment
Judge: Sviatlana Charapovich
Groups: IT specialists
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Darya Liauko is an employee of an IT company in Minsk. She was detained as part of a criminal case for ‘group actions grossly violating public order’ under Article 342 of the Criminal Code. She was accused of participating in protests and blocking roads in 2020. Liauko was taken into pre-trial detention.
It is known that on August 29, 2022, Liauko was tried in the Pieršamajski District Court of Minsk under Article 342 of the Criminal Code ‘Organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, or active participation in them.’ Judge Sviatlana Charapovich considered the case behind closed doors. It is likely that Liauko received a non-custodial sentence, but the human rights activists have no detailed information on the verdict.
In October 2022, it came to light that Darya Liauko might be in a mental health center.
