The Military Court of the Second Western District closed the hearing in the case of director Evgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk. In this respect Wrote Svetlana Petriychuk’s lawyer Sergei Badamshin on the Telegram channel “VLager”.
“As of this hearing, hearings are held in closed court,” Badamshin said.
At the beginning of May 2023, Berkovich and Petriychuk became defendants in a criminal case for “legitimizing terrorism”. The reason for this was that they created a performance based on the play “Finist Yasnyi Sokol”. The production tells the story of women who are contacted by followers of radical Islam through social networks. Law enforcement authorities determined that the work contained signs of propaganda and legitimation of terrorism.
The other day actor Veniamin Smekhov spoke In court regarding the performance of Berkovich and Petriychuk. He highly appreciated the performance, said the production was talented, and expressed a desire to watch it again.
10 June recognizedAn ambulance had to be called to the courtroom of director Evgenia Berkovich and the next hearing was postponed.