Yuri Dmitriev, exposer of Stalin’s mass graves, remains in prison An earlier email incorrectly stated that Dmitriev had been released to house arrest. This request was declined. He remains in jail. A corrected version of the email is attached below. The Dmitriev Affair: Dmitriev to remain in custody AFP: Critics…

Associated Press: Russian activist arrested after acquittal is reversed Human Rights in Ukraine: Russia Brings New Charges The Times of London: Historian of Stalin’s purges charged with sexual abuse Yuri Dmitriev, the Russian historian whose work is said to have run afoul of President Putin’s campaign to reboot Joseph Stalin’s image, has been arrested again after being acquitted of previous charges in April.

Reuters: Russian gulag historian released from jail pending trial Yuri Dmitriev, the historian accused by Russian state prosecutors of child pornography, has been released from pretrial detention after more than a year. However, he still faces trial for the charges. The 61-year-old Dmitriev is head of the Memorial human rights…

Yuri Dmitriev Barents Observer: Legal experts point at innocence of historian Dmitriev The Dmitriev Affair (English translation of news stories): Dmitriev transferred to Moscow for psychiatric assessment Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group: Russia turns to punitive psychiatry as trial collapses 7x7: Dmitriev to be released (December 27, the day before…

Yuri Dmitriev cataloging remains from one of the secret mass graves of the Stalin era. Photo: Simeon Maisterman Open Democracy: The Historian Who Dug Too Deep Los Angeles Times: Outspoken Researcher of Stalin’s Crimes Fights for His Fate 7x7: Report on Dmitriev’s trial Facebook: Free Yuri Dmitriev (English version), Update from Dmitriev’s lawyer…

Contact: Elizabeth Childs Russian.human.rights.alert@gmail.com +1 (510) 547–2589 Yuri Dmitriev, noted Russian historian of Stalin’s Great Purges and chairman of the Karelia Memorial Society, is on trial as the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution approaches. Dmitriev was arrested in December 2016, His trial began on June 1, 2017 and is ongoing as of August 10 at Petrozavodsk…

Photo: Alexander Baroshin / BBC Persistent street protester Ildar Dadin received one of this year’s 17th annual Freedom of Expression Awards, given out in London on Tuesday, April 19th by Index on Censorship. Google and CNN are among Index’s sponsors for the awards. But Russian authorities refused to allow Dadin to travel to London to…

Photo: Vasily Maximov / Getty Images A month after being released from prison for charges related to his repeated public protests, Russian activist Ildar Dadin has been arrested again for a standalone protest outside the Russian interior ministry, according to two attorneys who represent him. TASS has the only direct news report so far. Dadin’s wife, journalist Anastasia Zotova, has yet to report on her Russian-language Facebook page devoted to Dadin and other Russian prisoners. (Contact info for Ms. Zotova and others below.)

Ildar Dadin briefly detained a week after his release