Trial hearings postponed

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.

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

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