The investigation sent a petition to the Moscow Zamoskvoretsky Court demanding the arrest of theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk. It has been reported DEA News with regard to the representative of the court.
The investigation requires a measure of restraint in the form of detention. Now the defendants are charged with article 205.2 (justification for terrorism) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
According to the director’s mother, Elena Efros, her daughter was sued because of the play “Finist Yasny Sokol” based on Petriychuk’s play. The heroines of the play are women who decided to marry radical Islamists virtually and came to them in Syria.
The meeting for the selection of a restraining measure is held on May 5, colleagues of the theater figures and journalists gathered near the court – in particular, as socialbites.ca was told from the scene, Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta and the House of the Lighthouse Relief Fund for Refugees co-founder » Lydia Moniava.
Previously reportedHe said the Investigative Committee had arrested director Berkovich and playwright Petriychuk for a demonstration about Russian women joining the Islamists.