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Court of Memorial Yuri Dmitriev
Yuri Dmitriev. 2009. Photo: Tomash of the Cystem
On June 1, in Petrozavodsk, a trial begins the chairman of the Karelian Memorial Yuri Dmitriev, in respect of whom criminal cases on the manufacture of children's pornography, debauchery and turnover of weapons are fabricated. On May 12, the Petrozavodsky City Court extended Dmitriev for another six months.
The 60-year-old Dmitriev was detained on December 13, 2016 and arrested two days later . The activist was charged with the item "in" parts 2 of Article 242.2 of the Criminal Code (the use of a person under the age of 14 for the manufacture of pornographic materials). This accusation provides for 8 to 15 years in the colony.
According to the Investigative Committee, Dmitriev took pictures of the naked 11-year-old adopted daughter of Natalia. Meanwhile, lawyer Anufriev noted that Dmitriev adopted a child with slow development. “Before becoming a foster father, he went through special courses, received a certificate,” the lawyer said. “And there it was recommended that with such physically, children should be conducted by a photo album. That is, to compare how development is going on.” These pictures, emphasized Anufriev, were stored on Dmitriev’s home computer; The activist did not print them, did not publish and did not send anyone.
On March 2, 2017 , two more articles of the Criminal Code were added to the activist : 135 (depraved actions) and 222 (illegal weapon turnover) - during the search, Dmitriev found a broken sight.
In the late 1990s, Dmitriev led expeditions who discovered places of mass executions of political prisoners in the tracts of Sandarmokh and Red Bor, located respectively in the Medvezhyegorsky in the Prionezhsky districts of Karelia. He acted as one of the founders of the Sandarmokh memorial complex. In this tract in the 1930s, more than 9.5 thousand political zyes were shot. Dmitriev was also the compiler and publisher of books in memory of victims of political repressions of the 1930-1940s in Karelia.
A few days before Dmitriev’s detention, they repeatedly called and asked strange questions about the “executioners lists”.
Details of the criminal case of Dmitriev and the story of his activities are in the material of Shura Burtin .