The Memorial Human Rights Centre held an online press conference about the Dmitriev case on Friday, 10 July, at 12 noon (Moscow time)

Among those taking part were

Victor ANUFRIEV — Dmitriev’s defence attorney since 2017

Irina FLIGE — director of the Memorial Research and Information Centre in St Petersburg, board member of the International Memorial Society

Anatoly RAZUMOV — historian and director of Their Names Restored project at the Russian National Library (St Petersburg)

Natalya SOLZHENITSYN — President of the Solzhenitsyn Fund “in support of the persecuted and their families”

Alexander SOKUROV — film director and member of the Presidential Human Rights Council

and

Sergei DAVIDIS — director of the Support for Political Prisoners programme, and board member of the International Memorial Society

The moderator of the discussion was Oleg ORLOV, member of the council of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, and board member of the International Memorial Society.