Yuliya Liviant
sentenced to 2 years of home confinement
Former political prisoner
Date of birth: 10 December 1969
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: 2 1/2 years
Penalty: restricted freedom under home confinement ("domashnyaya khimiya")
Date of release: 25 May 2023
Judge: Katsiaryna Murashka
Notes: Health issues
Cases: Protests in Minsk
Yuliya Liviant was arrested together with her husband Yauhen Liviant—a famous Belarusian teacher and tutor in physics and mathematics, the head of the 100 Points tutoring center. Their daughter Hanna Liviant was detained at the trial of her parents in December 2022, when she and her husband returned to Belarus from Poland.
A former cellmate of Yuliya Liviant in the detention center on Akrescina Street said about the political prisoner, "Yuliya has diabetes and it is vital for her to take pills... It was difficult for Yuliya because of the disease, as she cannot eat potatoes, bread, or sugar. Soup with potatoes was not allowed and all that remained was cereals".
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 eldest 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 Yuliya Liviant to 24 months of freedom restriction under home confinement.
The political prisoner was released from custody in the courtroom and was released from remand prison #1 (in Minsk).
