Dzmitryi Liaukovich

sentenced to 3 years under home confinement

Former prisoner

Date of birth: 25 May 1986

Date of detention: 9 August 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: 3 years

Penalty: restricted freedom under home confinement ("domashnyaya khimiya")

Judge: Yulyana Shcherba

Cases: Protests in Minsk

Dzmitryi Liaukovich was detained on August 9, 2022, in Minsk. It became known that Liaukovich was accused of ‘active participation in group actions that grossly violate the public order’. under Article 342 of the Criminal Code.

He was placed in the pre-trial detention center.

On November 29, 2022, the Centraĺny District Court of Minsk considered the criminal case of Dzmitryi Liaukovich and his wife Katsiaryna Liaukovich. Judge Yuliana Shcherba sentenced each of them to three years under home confinement.

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