On the 100th anniversary of Andrey Sakharov’s (1921-1989) birth, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee will present the 2021 Sakharov Freedom Award to Russian historian and dissident Yury Dmitriyev.
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(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 5, 2018 Russian historian Yury Dmitriyev, who heads rights group Memorial's branch in Karelia, arrives for the verdict in his child pornography trial at a court in the city of Petrozavodsk in northwestern Russia.
