After two acquittals and a sentence much shorter than that demanded, new measures were taken in Russia to secure a long sentence against world-renowned historian of the Soviet Terror, Yury Dmitriev. The appeal hearing at the Karelia Supreme Court was before Alla Rats, a judge whose bias had already been demonstrated, and a state-appointed lawyer was brought in, although Dmitriev’s lawyer was in quarantine and had asked for a postponement. It was this appeal hearing, added an unprecedented 10 years to the original sentence and revoked the acquittals.
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Russian historian Yury Dmitriev, charged with abusing his adoptive daughter, is escorted into a court building for his verdict hearing in the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk on July 22, 2020.
