“Freedom Convoy” leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber have both been given 18-month conditional sentences for their roles in the protest that blockaded downtown Ottawa for several weeks.

The two learned their fate when they appeared in an Ottawa courtroom on Tuesday.

Lich and Barber were found guilty of mischief in April , while Barber was also found guilty of an additional offence of counselling others to disobey a court order.

Justice Heather Perkins-McVey sentenced Barber, who is from Swift Current, Sask., to 12 months of house arrest and another six months abiding by a strict curfew.

Lich, who is from Medicine Hat, Alta., will serve 12 months of house arrest and three and a half months under a curfew after being given credit for days already spent in custody.

Lich and Barber were

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