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MOSCOW, November 13 On November 28, the Moscow City Court will check the legality of extending the arrest until 2024 of director Evgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk in the case of justifying terrorism, reported in court.
“On November 28, the Moscow City Court will consider the defense’s complaints against the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky court to extend the preventive measure in the form of detention in relation to Berkovich and Petriychuk,” said the agency’s interlocutor.
The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow in early November extended the girls' detention until January 10.
The need to extend the preventive measure was justified by a representative of the Investigative Committee, including the impossibility of completing the investigation due to previously appointed examinations — psychological-psychiatric and psychological-linguistic auto-editing.
The defense calls the criminal prosecution of Petriychuk and Berkovich illegal, and the selection or extension of any preventive measure — unmotivated.
As follows from the materials read out in court, the case was initiated for posting on YouTube a reading of the play “Finist Yasnyi Sokol”, which, according to the expert assessment, contained signs of justification of terrorism, the ideology of the terrorist group “Islamic State” banned in the Russian Federation* and jihadism.
The defense considers the “destructological” examination on which the case is based illegal. In the response of the All-Russian Federal Center for Social Security under the Ministry of Justice of Russia to the request of lawyers about the competence of the study, it is stated that such examinations are not carried out in the Russian Federal Center for Social Expertise, in addition, “destructology is not a science, nor any field of technology, art or craft, and only such are understood by the legislation of the Russian Federation.” Federations under special knowledge.»
The play “Finist Yasny Falcon” was staged by Berkovich in Moscow based on the play by Petriychuk. It tells the story of women who decide to virtually marry adherents of radical Islam and go to Syria to join them. The performance, created, among other things, with money from the Ministry of Culture, received the Golden Mask theater award.
*Terrorist organization banned in Russia.