Supporters say Dmitriyev, who worked closely with a prominent rights group, is being targeted for his work
Business Insider: Russia extends prison sentence for Gulag historian who researched Stalin's purges to 15 years
* A Russian Gulag historian had his prison sentence extended to 15 years.
* The historian, Yuri Dmitriev, has uncovered mass graves from Stalin's purges.
* Critics say the charges against Dmitriev are politically motivated due to his work.
A Russian court extended the prison sentence of a prominent historian and activist, Yuri Dmitriev, as part of a sex abuse case that critics have condemned as politically motivated, Reuters reported on Monday.
Dmitriev had two more years added to his 13-year sentence, and is now set to spend 15 years behind bars.
Last July, Dmitriev was found guilty of sexually abusing his adopted daughter. He's vehemently denied the allegations against him.
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WNU Editor: At 65 years old this 15 year sentence for Yuri Dmitriev is a death sentence.
Gulag Historian Who Researched Stalin's Purges Sentenced To 15 Years
Russian Court Hikes Sentence Of Historian Dmitriyev To 15 Years On Charges He Denies -- RFE
Russia: Gulag historian, activist Yuri Dmitriyev sentenced to 15 years -- DW
Russia extends prison term for researcher of Stalin purges -- ABC News/AP
Russia Extends Jailed Gulag Historian's Prison Sentence to 15 Years -- Moscow Times
Human rights around the globe, not just in Russia, are on retreat thanks to a complacent and ignorant population
ReplyDeleteThey never get it that they too will soon see what tyranny tastes like. You cannot sit it out and hope it'll pass like bad weather. It sticks around for decades if you don't speak up and resist.
This is sad to see. Unless of course, he really molested his daughter. In which case, he deserves it.
ReplyDeleteIf there is not an accurate recounting of history, what is next? Stalin rehabilitated?
ReplyDeleteIs Russia an accident?
That is should it still be around?
Operation Barbarossa was set back for 2 reasons. One the Brits engineered or assisted a coup in Yugoslavia to oust a pro-German monarch. The other was Mussolini's ill advised invasion of Greece.
What if Germany had had 10 more weeks of good campaigning weather?
Stalin was responsible for the murder of 85% of the Soviet officer corps. Hitler was not too far wrong when he said " We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down." Well the officer corps started regenerating and also the campaign was delayed.
If the campaign had started earlier would Zhukov showed up in time. The others around Stalin were yes men. Zhukov saved Moscow.
America is going peak stupid right now. Do the Russians want to follow them?
Sounds like the new boss is a lot like the old boss.
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ReplyDeleteWhile this would be inline with Russia's usual norm for treating anti-establishment figures, there's enough actual evidence that this man did rape his daughter among other things.
Russian's don't really care about the sideline activities that he was up to.
Putin's not a Communist , lol!
ReplyDeletethere's enough actual evidence that this man did rape his daughter among other things.
ReplyDeleteHow so? He was acquitted in 2018. If anyone had bothered reading the underlying articles, it opens up more questions than it answers. I do not see the term rape come up anywhere in them just pictures. The pictures themselves are agreed upon to a certain point. There are some. We do not know how many or what they depict. We do not know if it is usual practice for Russian social services. I do not see why it would be. but prosecutors do not seem to have shot it down in the 1st trial.
There are naked pictures of boys from the late teens early twenties after WW1. They are enough to make you angry. They eyes of the pictures are blanked out. Part of what they do is document the malnutrition or starvation resulting from WW1 and the British blockade. Some of the boys are 12 to 14 and they are only as tall as kids half their age. Pictures like these sometimes get taken by social services or social scientists.
The whole thing looks bad. Is it bad for the accused or Russian social services?
Yes. Social services can be bad. In the state of Missouri the child protective services treat children like cattle.
The whole "they raided his apartment and found" stinks. What was probable cause? It smells like some stuff was planted. Rifle parts? Parts but not a whole disassembled rifle?
ReplyDeletePrisoners in the neo-USSR; prisoners in the USSA
"- Despite never getting closer than 20 feet from officers at the Capitol,
- never entering the building, and
only carrying a megaphone,
Reffitt was arrested in a pre-dawn military-style raid on his home by FBI with guns pointed at his wife and kids."
"Even Reffitt’s wife is now being abused by the US government. She was recently yanked from a plane for being married to a January 6 protester in Washington DC who never committed any acts of violence."