Hanna Liviant
sentenced to 3 years of home confinement
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 17 April 1999
Date of detention: 28 December 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")
Date of release: 25 May 2023
Judge: Katsiaryna Murashka
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Hanna Liviant is the daughter of Yauhen Liviant—a famous Belarusian teacher and tutor in physics and mathematics, the head of the 100 Points tutoring center, who was arrested in December 2022 together with his wife Yuliya Liviant.
Hanna Liviant was arrested at the trial of her parents in December 2022, when she and her husband Mikita Drozd returned to Belarus from Poland. In the 'penitential' video, she says that in 2020, she participated in "unauthorized mass events".
On May 19, 2023, the trial of Yauhen Liviant began in the Maskoŭski District Court of Minsk. In the criminal case, along with Yauhen Liviant, there are six more defendants, including his wife Yuliya Liviant, his daughter Hanna Liviant, his son-in-law Mikita Drozd, and the co-owner of his tutoring center Aliaksei Ivanou.
On May 25, 2023, Judge Katsiaryna Murashka sentenced Hanna Liviant to three years of freedom restriction under home confinement.
The political prisoner was released from custody in the courtroom and released from remand prison #1 (in Minsk).
