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The Supreme Court of Karelia refused to release historian Yuri Dmitriev from custody. He is in detention facility where coronavirus was detected

Denis Strelkov, Sergey Markelov
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The Supreme court of Karelia denied the appeal of the defense of local history expert Yuri Dmitriev against the prolongation of his arrest. Dmitriev's lawyer Viktor Anufriev told 7x7 about this.

The defense demanded varying the preventive punishment for 64-year-old Yuri Dmitriev, because the local history expert is high risk of coronavirus infection (he had a serious catarrhal disease a couple of months ago). As Artur Parfenchikov, the Head of the Republic, said, two people were found to have COVID-19 in Pre-Trial Detention Facility 1 in Petrozavodsk.

Before, more than 150 people including famous actors and musicians, scientists and teachers have expressed concern for the life of the local history expert who had found mass graves of executed Soviet citizens in Sandarmokh and Krasny Bor.


Yuri Dmitriev, local history expert and the Head of the Karelian Memorial Society,  discovered mass graves of political repressions’ victims in Sandarmokh and Krasny Bor in the late 1990s.

In April 2018, the Petrozavodsk City Court declared the historian not guilty of making child pornography (photos of his adopted daughter being naked). Yuri Dmitriev pointed out that those photos had been taken for the health journal. Experts stated at the hearing that they did not consider the photo pornographic. Two months later, the republican court overturned the acquittal, and Dmitriev was suspected of sexual abuse in addition to taking photos.

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