The sentence to Yuri Dmitriev

On April 5, the judge of the Petrozavodsk City Court Marina Nosova will announce the verdict to the head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial Society to Yuri Dmitriev, who was accused in the fabricated case of the manufacture of children's pornography. A large support group from Moscow is expected in the court. The hearings were held closed.

The 62-year-old Dmitriev spent about a year in a pre-trial detention center, a month at the Serbsky Institute; Now he is under the subscription about the lower room.

At a meeting on March 20, the state prosecution requested for him nine years in a maximum security colony .

Dmitriev’s examination, carried out in December 2017 - January 2018 in the Moscow Center named after Serbian, confirmed that the accused is mentally healthy and is not a pedophile.

Dmitriev was detained on December 13, 2016 and arrested two days later. The activist is charged with paragraph 2 of Article 242.2 (the use of a person under the age of 14 for the manufacture of pornographic materials), which provides from 8 to 15 years of the colony, as well as Article 135 (depraved actions) and 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal turnover of weapons).

According to the plot of the case, Dmitriev took pictures of the naked 11-year-old adopted daughter of Natalia and kept the house at home.

In fact, Dmitriev adopted a child with slow development and he was recommended to periodically photograph the girl to fix her condition. These pictures, the lawyer emphasized, were stored on Dmitriev’s home computer; The activist did not print them, did not publish and did not send anyone. As for the cut, Dmitriev took it away a few years ago from the children in the yard. At the same time, the weapons are no longer suitable for shooting.