The hearing of the appeals will resume at 10 am at the High Court of Karelia, 27 Kirov Street in Petrozavodsk, on Tuesday, 29 September. By which time Victor Anufriev will be out of quarantine, hopefully, and able to defend his client Yury DMITRIEV.
Petition / Appeal*
Hearing goes ahead — without Anufriev
The hearing at Karelia’s High Court of defence and prosecution appeals against the 22 July verdict in the DMITRIEV trial will go ahead tomorrow despite the absence of Victor Anufriev, the attorney who has led Dmitriev’s defence since December 2016. Postponed for a week at Anufriev’s request (he is self-isolating), the hearing will begin at 10 am on Tuesday, 22 September at 27 Kirov Street in Petrozavodsk.
Continue readingA Time to Speak Out
Today the Supreme Court of Karelia is hearing appeals from prosecution and defence against the verdict pronounced at Yury DMITRIEV’s trial on 22 July this year.
The prosecution has slightly “softened” its demands: now it is asking not for 15 but 13 years’ imprisonment. The defence, as before, demands that Dmitriev be cleared of all charges.
We must stand together today, in thought and word and deed, and say: No, we have not given up, we have not shut up and gone away, we are NOT happy with this verdict, even if it is the best possible in the circumstances. Our banner reads “Not Guilty!”
Continue readingFREE YURY DMITRIEV! (Petition)
To the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Karelian Republic Anatoly Vladimirovich Nakvas
On 23 March 2020, Yury DMITRIEV, who is being held in a detention facility in Petrozavodsk, was sentenced to remain under arrest for three more months. This means that the peak of the growing coronavirus epidemic will find him in a prison cell.
Yury Dmitriev is 64 years old. He has spent the last three years of his life behind bars, although no one has ever proven him guilty. Quite the opposite: in April of 2018, the court issued a non-guilty verdict on the main charges against him. But new charges, a new investigation, and a new court case have now been underway for almost two years. Yury Alekseevich’s health has already been severely impacted: he felt ill all of last fall and into the winter, and this February he had a bad cold which has left him very weak.
Continue readingFree Yury Dmitriev (Signatories)
On 21 November 2019 the text of a petition about Yury DMITRIEV was circulated in English and in Italian.
The list of 268 signatories (in alphabetical order by surname) follows. The petition will remain open for additional signatures until 3 December 2019:
The Dmitriev Affair 