The prosecutor's office demanded 15 years of strict regime for the historian Yuri Dmitriyev

As reported by Interfax, referring to the defendant's lawyer Roman Masalev, the court began to debate the parties.

Recall that Dmitriyev is accused of sexual immorality against a minor daughter, as well as the production of child pornography and possession of weapons.

Yuri Dmitriyev himself and his lawyer in cassation appeals challenged Dmitriyev's guilt for all the crimes imputed to him and asked the court to be fully acquitted. The historian does not admit his guilt. At the same time, earlier the Petrozavodsk City Court twice refused to accept the cassation appeal against the verdict of the Supreme Court of Karelia under the article on violent acts of a sexual nature against a minor adopted daughter.

In February, the St. Petersburg Court of Cassation rejected an appeal against the sentence to Dmitriyev, who had previously been sentenced to 13 years.

Dmitriev is known as the compiler of a book in memory of victims of political repression and the discoverer of mass graves in Sandarmokh and Krasny Bor. The criminal prosecution of the human rights defender began in 2016.

Yuri Dmitriyev is on the list of Russian political prisoners compiled by the Memorial* society.

* recognized as the foreign agent