PEN America: Russian Historian and Writer Must Be Released Amid Pandemic
May 09, 2020
May 09, 2020
NEW YORK, May 9 -- PEN America issued the following news release:
On Thursday, a Russian court reportedly rejected an urgent appeal to immediately release historian, writer, and human rights advocate Yury Dmitriev due to a COVID-19 outbreak in the detention center where he's being held. Dmitriev, 64, is head of the Karelia branch of the human rights group Memorial and has been persecuted on trumped-up charges since 2016.
This week, more than 150 Russian scholars, public . . .
On Thursday, a Russian court reportedly rejected an urgent appeal to immediately release historian, writer, and human rights advocate Yury Dmitriev due to a COVID-19 outbreak in the detention center where he's being held. Dmitriev, 64, is head of the Karelia branch of the human rights group Memorial and has been persecuted on trumped-up charges since 2016.
This week, more than 150 Russian scholars, public . . .