At the Petrozavodsk City Court today, the judge ruled that historian Yury DMITRIEV should remain in custody for a further three months.
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Verdict postponed, Dmitriev remains in jail
The latest hearing in the second trial of Yury DMITRIEV, scheduled for Wednesday 3 June, was deferred until mid-June when a verdict in the long drawn out trial is expected.
This leaves Dmitriev in the Petrozavodsk Detention Centre. At the last hearing his detention was extended, for a further three months, until 25 June despite mounting public concern that the 64-year-old researcher is being held in crowded conditions when cases of COVID-19 have been registered in Karelia’s penal system.
Continue readingAnufriev interview: “He’s facing things bravely, but hopes for justice”
Yury DMITRIEV’s second trial, like the first, is being held behind closed doors. His lawyer Victor Anufriev recently provided his view of the case in the longest interview he has given to the media since early last year. — the second trial began in September 2018. The interviewer was Katerina Gordeyeva (Meduza).
Continue readingDmitriev to remain in custody
On Thursday the Supreme Court of Karelia decided not to change the measure of restraint imposed on Yury DMITRIEV after he was charged with new offences, reports the Interfax news agency. His lawyers had challenged the decision of the Petrozavodsk City Court on 21 August to extend his detention in custody for a further three months.
Continue readingDmitriev acquitted
YURY DMITRIEV has been acquitted of charges relating to the production of child pornography but, as his attorney Victor Anufriev predicted earlier today, the verdict delivered this afternoon by Judge Marina Nosova imposes conditions, for example, that will restrict the historian’s freedom of movement for some while yet.
The exact terms of these conditions will doubtless be clearer tomorrow. They appear to relate to the classic standby charge of possessing a firearm …
John Crowfoot,
5.50 pm GMT
The Dmitriev Affair 