The Thursday and Friday hearings in Dmitriev’s third trial in Petrozavodsk have been postponed while the Supreme Court in Moscow considers his lawyer’s challenge, reports Nataliya Dyomina. On 19 October Victor Anufriev’s objection to the Court’s decision not to hear his appeal was registered on the Supreme Court website.
Appeal (judicial)
Lawyer challenges decision not to examine appeal
Yury DMITRIEV’s lawyer Victor Anufriev has written to the chairman of the Supreme Court, Vyacheslav Lebedev, challenging the decision taken on 12 October [R] not to examine the appeal against his client’s sentence to 13 years imprisonment. On 4 October Judge Sergei Abramov of the Panel for Criminal Cases [R] was assigned the 20 case … Continue reading Lawyer challenges decision not to examine appeal
RF Supreme Court to re-examine Dmitriev case
In late June this year Yury DMITRIEV submitted an appeal to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. On 30 June it was officially registered by the court. Yury Dmitriev at home in 2018, after a year in Remand Centre [SIZO] No. 1 (photo, Anna Artyemeva) On 31 August, the last day on which such … Continue reading RF Supreme Court to re-examine Dmitriev case
An appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
Lawyers from Memorial have submitted an appeal to the court in Strasbourg, asserting that the judicial proceedings in the DMITRIEV case have violated four articles of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The prosecution of Yury Dmitriev, head of Memorial in Karelia, is unusual in several respects. One, the investigation and hearings … Continue reading An appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
Next stop, Moscow?
The Petersburg ruling On Tuesday 16 February the Third Cassation Court in St Petersburg heard Yury DMITRIEV’s appeal against the ruling of the High Court of Karelia. The court did not uphold the appeal and left unchanged the harsh sentence of 13 years in a strict-regime penal colony. As Memorial reported, the consuls of Poland … Continue reading Next stop, Moscow?