Yury Dmitriev was first arrested on 13 December 2016. Briefly released in January 2018 and acquitted in April that year (Timeline One), he was again arrested in June 2018. Charged with similar offences Dmitriev was put on trial two more times. He was convicted in July 2020 and sentenced to three years and six months … Continue reading Eight years on …
Trial
about arrest, investigation and trial – entire process
Perm-35 camp museum re-opens online
Camp for post-Stalin political prisoners (Also see the entry for neighbouring Perm-36 on Russia's Necropolis of Terror and the Gulag.) The fate of many of those imprisoned here was documented at the time by the underground periodical A Chronicle of Current Events (April 1968-June 1982): - Balis Gajauskas - Mart Nicklus - Vladimir Bukovsky - … Continue reading Perm-35 camp museum re-opens online
A new film about Yury Dmitriev
Jessica Gorter My first interview in SEE NL about "The Dmitriev Affair" and the upcoming World Premiere at the Cracow Film Festival in Poland.
Again, the same “experts”
The charge sheet against Oleg Orlov reveals that the phoney experts used against Yury DMITRIEV in both his trials have once again been 'consulted' and offered their unprofessional opinions. Writing for the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, Halya Coynash has this ... === Concern that Oleg Orlov, Co-Chair of Memorial, could face imprisonment for his … Continue reading Again, the same “experts”
Reading the names: Sandarmokh 2022
For six hours on Friday, 5 August 2022, people around the world read out a seemingly endless list of those who were shot during Stalin's Great Terror in 1937-1938. Over six thousand men and women were executed at SANDARMOKH, one of Northwest Russia's biggest killing fields. I was asked to read some names where I … Continue reading Reading the names: Sandarmokh 2022
The Dmitriev Affair 