Russia convicts historian Yuri Dmitriyev who uncovered Stalin's mass graves.
However, the historian, Yuri Dmitriyev, avoided what his supporters had feared would be a much longer prison term. Prosecutors had sought a 15-year jail sentence for Dmitriyev but the court's decision means that because of time already served, he will be released in November.
A court in April 2018 acquitted Dmitriyev of the charges, but a higher court overturned the ruling and ordered further investigation. In 2018, police brought the case once again and added a fresh charge alleging he had violently sexually abused his daughter. Dmitriyev was arrested and placed in pre-trial detention.
Dmitriyev's supporters expressed disgust at the court's decision but hailed it as a victory because he will be freed soon. "By today's standards this is as good as them acquitting him," Evgeny Roizman, a prominent opposition politician wrote on Twitter. A memorial site in a forest in Sandarmokh, Russia, Aug. 5, 2018, marks the site of mass graves of people killed in the 1930's and 40's.
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