A Moscow court on Tuesday refused to launch a theatre director and a playwright apprehended over their award-winning play about Russian ladies hired online to wed radical Islamists in Syria.

Director Yevgeniya Berkovich and author Svetlana Petriychuk are accused of justifying terrorism and face up to seven years in prison over their play Finist, the Brave Falcon.

The accusation is based on a report that likewise says the play promotes radical feminism ? a term progressively utilized against political challengers.? A Moscow court confirmed the 2 would stay in pre-trial detention up until the start of July.

Some of their supporters came to the court in a program of uniformity.

Berkovich, who has actually composed psychological poems against Moscows Ukraine offensive, asked to be launched pending trial, but a Moscow court threw out her appeal.

A mom to two embraced teenage daughters, she stated she feared her children might suffer severe psychiatric breakdown as a result of separation.

I did not devote any criminal offense, stated Berkovich, who appeared in court via video-link and wore a grey T-shirt.

My job is to phase efficiencies.

She stated she was not a flight danger because she had susceptible children in your home.

I am speaking about human things, she stated.? Berkovich stressed that the play got financing from the Culture Ministry.? You believe the ministry offered some rubles to make terrorism propaganda? she said.

They are judging a work of art, Berkovichs legal representative Ksenia Karpinskaya informed the hearing.

Dostoyevsky would have remained in prison due to the fact that his Crime and Punishment is about a maniac who eliminated an old female, she added.

Berkovich was a student of Kirill Serebrennikov, one of Russias a lot of innovative and effective directors.

Serebrennikov left the nation after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent out troops to Ukraine last year.