Yauhen Liviant
physics and mathematics teacher and tutor, head of tutoring center, sentenced to 3 years of home confinement
Former prisoner
Date of birth: 30 July 1966
Date of detention: 27 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
Groups: Businessmen, Teachers
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Yauhen Liviant is a famous Belarusian teacher, a tutor in physics and mathematics, and the head of the 100 Points tutoring center. A 'penitential' video with him was posted by one of the pro-government Telegram channels. The law enforcers accused him of the 2020 protests, blocking the roads, and even attempting a coup d'état since Liviant had been a member of the Coordination Council.
His wife Yuliya Liviant was arrested together with him. Their daughter Hanna Liviant was detained 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 Liviant, there were 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.
The political prisoner fully admitted his guilt.
On May 25, 2023, Judge Katsiaryna Murashka sentenced Yauhen 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).
