A hearing of the appeal against Yury DMITRIEV’s conviction in late December last year has been scheduled for 9 March 2022 at the High Court of Karelia. Curiously, the old link to the case on the Court’s website no longer works. Instead, you must search for it anew and can only find it by tracking … Continue reading Dmitriev appeal hearing set for Wednesday, 9 March 2022
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Dmitriev on Solovki, 2005
Sergei Bykovsky today posted on Facebook a photo of Yury DMITRIEV in 2005 at Mount Sekirna on the Great Solovetsky Island. Dmitriev's little foster daughter Natasha was christened on that trip. That year Yury DMITRIEV received the new Golden Pen of Russia award for his publications about the building of the White Sea Canal in … Continue reading Dmitriev on Solovki, 2005
Dublin Protest outside Russian Embassy
by Crew of the Northabout yacht and other Irish "Grandfathers for Human Rights" On Thursday, 10 February 2022, the crew of the Northabout yacht, which sailed through the White Sea Canal in 2012 and met Yury DMITRIEV, held a silent protest against his unjust and heavy sentence outside the Russian Embassy in Dublin. Crew members … Continue reading Dublin Protest outside Russian Embassy
Portrait
This portrait of Yury DMITRIEV was recently produced by the artist Boris Zhutovsky. DMITRIEV has been in custody since December 2016, with only a brief period of liberty from January to June 2018 when he was allowed to live at home but not to leave Petrozavodsk. The portrait was evidently created from photos of the … Continue reading Portrait
Sixty-six on 28 January 2022
Yury DMITRIEV will mark his 66th birthday at Karelia's Detention Centre No 1 in Petrozavodsk on Friday, 28 January this year. Yury DMITRIEV, b. 1956(his daughter Katya can be seen behind him) Photo from Inside Story, 13 January 2022 "Ο φύλακας της ρωσικής μνήμης που ζει σε σωφρονιστική αποικία"
The Dmitriev Affair 