INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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
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,
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.
