… says his defence attorney Victor Anufriev. His client is accused of making pornographic pictures of his adopted daughter. Two more offenses (“Committing acts of debauchery” and “illegal possession of basic firearm parts”) were later added to that charge. Continue reading
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Presidential council monitoring case
During a joint meeting with the Human Rights Council of Karelia SERGEI KRIVENKO, a member of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights, announced that members of the Council’s “Standing Committee on Precedents” are monitoring the case of Yury Dmitriev, head of the Karelian branch of Memorial, against whom pornography charges have been brought.
Continue readingTo Prosecutor from Memorial
International Memorial Society
Karetny Ryad, 5/10
Moscow
127006
Prosecutor of the Republic of Karelia
185910 Republic of Karelia
Petrozavodsk
4, German Titov Street
16 December 2016
Dear Mr Prosecutor,
On 13 December the local historian and public figure Yury Dmitriev was detained in Petrozavodsk.
We have known Yury Alexeyevich Dmitriev for many years as a researcher into the history of political repression in Karelia, as author of the book Lists of Remembrance of Karelia, as the person who discovered a number of places of burial of victims of political repression, and as one of the first people to locate a major burial site of this kind, [what is now] the Sandormokh Memorial Cemetery, Continue reading
The Dmitriev Affair 