The lawyer of the Karelian historian Dmitrieva filed an appeal for the court verdict

The defense of the historian and the head of the Karelian “Memorial” Yuri Dmitriev filed an appeal against the decision of the Petrozavodsk City Court, who found Dmitriev guilty of violent actions against the minor reception of his daughter and sentenced to three and half years of the colony of strict regime. This site of North. Reali was announced by historian lawyer Viktor Anufriev.

"The main claims to the indictment of the decision. I will ask that the court decision is brought according to the evidence that are in the case file. To remove all the charges, he did not commit anything criminal," Anufriev said.

According to the lawyer, presumably, the first meeting on the consideration of the appeal will be held in September.

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The court in Petrozavodsk on July 22 sentenced Yuri Dmitriev to 3.5 years in a maximum security colony. He was accused of sexual violence in relation to the adopted daughter, depraved actions, the manufacture of pornography and illegal storage of weapons. The historian was found guilty only on the first charges, by the rest - justified.

Under the leadership of Yuri Dmitriev in the 1990s in the forests, mass burials of victims of political repression in Sandarmokh and Red Bor. Dmitriev compiled lists of memory of the dead, which totaled several thousand names.

The first case against the historian was excited in 2016. He was accused of making pornography with the participation of the adopted daughter, but he was justified. Later, the Supreme Court of Karelia canceled the decision. In 2018, a new criminal case was opened against Dmitriev.