Writer Zakhar Prilepin appeared next to director Evgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk at the presentation of a collection of works by writers who participated in a special military operation in Ukraine. nail Edition of the Daily Storm.
According to him, he did not understand what the elements of the women’s crime were and said that the punishments were disproportionate to the act.
“In this game, supposedly ISIS (an organization banned in Russia)* is right because there is a handsome ISIS member. What I read did not convince me that people really need to be imprisoned for such things,” Prilepin is sure.
Berkovich and Petriychuk became defendants in the criminal case in early May 2023. They were accused of legitimizing terrorism because of the game “Finist Yasny Falcon.” From the beginning of the trial, the girls denied the charges against them.
The play “Finist Yasny Sokol” tells about women with whom followers of radical Islam communicate through social networks. According to investigators, the script of the production contains traces of terrorist propaganda.
On July 8, Berkovich and Petriychuk were sentenced to six years in prison.
At the same meeting Zakhar Prilepin He was angry Because Russians don’t read military literature. According to Prilepin, he went to “the most famous youth site” where users share their opinions about the books they read and saw that works by Ray Bradbury, Stephen King and George Orwell were at the top of the list.
Earlier, lawyers Berkovich and Petriychuk appealed sentence.