Prosecution turns to punitive psychiatry as trial collapses

28 December 201713 May 2018 / editors (JC)

A second expert assessment has effectively overturned the entire case against YURY DMITRIEV, renowned Russian historian and head of the Karelia branch of Memorial (writes Halya Coynash). There is no immediate sign that this judicial travesty is ending, with the prosecutor immediately demanding yet another assessment of the photos which experts found no pornographic content … Continue reading Prosecution turns to punitive psychiatry as trial collapses

Dmitriev to be released on 28 January 2018

27 December 201717 December 2020 / editors (JC) / 1 Comment

The historian and head of the Memorial Society in Karelia, YURY DMITRIEV, will be released from the Detention Centre in Petrozavodsk on Sunday, 28 January 2018, after spending more than a year there, remanded in custody. On Wednesday, 27 December 2017, the Petrozavodsk City Court decided to change the measure of restraint from detention in … Continue reading Dmitriev to be released on 28 January 2018

Photos not pornographic, say new forensic experts

27 December 201714 December 2020 / editors (JC)

A new assessment of the photographs of YURY DMITRIEV’s foster daughter was scheduled by the court: the photos constitute the main evidence against the head of the Memorial Society in Karelia. Yesterday, during the interval in the proceedings at this famous case, Dmitriev’s defence attorney VICTOR ANUFRIEV announced to waiting journalists that the new forensic … Continue reading Photos not pornographic, say new forensic experts

The real reason for the delay at the trial?

1 December 201715 August 2025 / editors (JC)

On Thursday, 30 November, the hearing continued of the case against historian YURY DMITRIEV, accused of producing pornographic images. The court rejected the defence petition for the removal of the Federal Department of Independent Forensic Assessment from the case, reported Dmitriev’s defence attorney VICTOR ANUFRIEV. Anufriev said he had information that the Arbitration Court in … Continue reading The real reason for the delay at the trial?

Motion denied (twice)

30 November 201718 February 2018 / editors (JC)

The latest court hearing in the case of YURY DMITRIEV, head of Memorial in Karelia, took place at the Petrozavodsk City Court on Wednesday and Thursday, 29 and 30 November. After a month of waiting, during which the new expert assessment of the photographic evidence was supposedly being prepared, it was learned that the work … Continue reading Motion denied (twice)