The Dmitriev Affair - a Rights in Russia event to be held at Pushkin House on 19th December 2017 at 19:30

Photo by Simeon Maisterman

Event: The Dmitriev Affair Where: Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2TA When: Tuesday, December 19, 2017, at 7:30 PM until 9:00 PM Tickets: Full price: £7; FOPH, Students, Senior: £5 To book tickets in advance, visit the website of Pushkin House

Yuri Dmitriev, a Gulag researcher, who had been locating and exhuming the mass graves of Stalin's victims since 1980-s, was arrested on 13th December 2016 and imprisoned on trumped-up charges. His trial started in June 2017 and is still going on.

The Dmitriev affair will be discussed by lawyers and human rights activists. The event will be chaired by John Crowfoot, researcher and translator, who created the site https://dmitrievaffair.wordpress.com and Bill Bowring, a practicing barrister and Professor of Law at Birkbeck College.

This is a joint event of Pushkin Club and Rights in Russia and all are welcome.