A number of cultural figures, journalists and human rights activists addressed the Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova in an open letter with a request to change the restrictive measures against playwright Svetlana Petriychuk and theater director Evgenia Berkovich, who are in the pre-trial detention center. reports RBC.
20 November dead director Evgenia Berkovich’s grandmother, writer and human rights activist Nina Katerli.
The letter emphasizes that what Berkovich said at each hearing to prolong the detention came true.
“He asked the court to change the restrictive measure: he has two grandmothers to care for and two adopted daughters. <…> “We ask you to help change the preventive measure against Svetlana Petriychuk and Zhenya Berkovich.”
The Ombudsman is asked to release the prisoner “so that he can at least bury his grandmother.”
The letter was signed by 23 people, including theater and film actors, writers, journalists, film and theater directors, TV presenter Ivan Urgant, human rights activist Irina Yasina and publicist Marina Melia.
The appeal was signed by Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk, a participant in the scandalous show, Evgeny Mironov (artistic director of the Theater of Nations), Nikolai Solodnikov and Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov, former editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta. (recognized as a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), artistic director of the Satyricon Theater » Konstantin Raikin.
Evgeniya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk were detained at the beginning of May on charges of legitimizing terrorism due to the play “Finist Yasny Falcon”, which Berkovich staged based on Petriychuk’s script.
November 2 Berkovich and Petriychuk extended the arrest Until January 10 in case terrorism is legitimized.
Previously reportedIt was stated that the evaluation of the complaint regarding the extension of Berkovich’s detention period was postponed.