The trial was on sexual violence against his adoptive daughter. His followers denounce a reprisal measure.
Le Monde with AFP
In Russia, the historian Iouri Dmitriev, a specialist in Stalinist repression, was sentenced, Monday, December 27, to fifteen years of detention for sexual violence against a child.
The condemnation of this figure of the Memorial Human Rights NGO concludes the first of three judicial appointments in three days related to this organization, which risks liquidation this week. It was pronounced by a Tribunal de Petrozavodsk, Carelie, northwestern region of the country where M. Dmitriev led a memorial antenna.
“IOURI DMITRIEV took fifteen years,” published Memorial in a laconic message on his Telegram chain. It increased by two years the sentence pronounced in 2020 in this same case, considered by the supporters of the historian as a measure of retaliation for his research on the deadly purges of the Soviet era.
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Memorial, pillar of Russian civil society since the fall of the USSR, faces two trials aimed at its liquidation, scheduled Tuesday and Wednesday. “I’m ashamed for what’s happening,” said the historian Anatoli Razoumov, specializing in the study of Stalinist repressions, adding that he was convinced that Mr. Dmitriev would be rehabilitated one day. Asked by the press, the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov, said that the Kremlin did not comment on the decisions of justice.
m. Dmitriev had been arrested and charged in 2016 for child pornography accusations when he was in possession of photos of his naked adoptive daughter. He had assured that these clichés were intended to follow the growth of the girl, physically disabled, and had been paid in 2018. But after several other passages before the court, he had been sentenced to thirteen years of detention last year.
For many NGOs, Mr. Dmitriev pays for his research on the magnitude of Stalinist repressions, a story page whose Kremlin strives to minimize the importance because in contradiction with the official speech on the official speech. Heroism and the greatness of Russia, heiress of the USSR. Mr. Dmitriev has spent decades to locate hinges and to exhume the remains of victims. Under Vladimir Putin – which is a former KGB officer, the heiress organization of Lenin and Stalin’s political policies -, access to the state archives concerning these subjects has been considerably reduced and the identities of the perfume performers, classified. .