Artists, directors and other cultural figures asked the Commissioner for Human Rights under the President of Russia Tatiana Moskalkova intervene in the director’s business Evgeniy Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychukto change their preventive measure. The open letter was published by Novaya Gazeta.
The appeal came after November 20 died Berkovich’s grandmother, 89-year-old writer and human rights activist Nina Katerli.
“We ask you to help Svetlana Petriychuk and Zhenya Berkovich the preventive measure was changed. At least so that she could bury her grandmother,” the letter says.
It was signed by 23 people, including a TV presenter Ivan Urgantactors Yulia Peresild, Denis Sukhov, Danila Kozlovsky, Veniamin Smekhov, Ksenia Rappoport, Evgeniy Mironov, Timofey Tribuntsev, Marietta Tsigal-Polishchuk (she took part in the performance that led to her arrest).
Writers also contacted the Ombudsman Lyudmila Ulitskaya And Guzel Yakhinaartistic director of the Satyricon theater Konstantin Raikindirector Alexander Sokurovscreenwriter Galina Aksenova, journalists Katerina Gordeeva (recognized Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation foreign agent) and her husband Nikolay SolodnikovNobel laureate and former editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov (recognized by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as a foreign agent).
It was previously known that Moscow City Court extended arrest of director Evgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk. They will remain in pre-trial detention until January 10. Berkovich and Petriychuk are charged under Article 205.2 (“Public calls for terrorist activities, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism”) of the Criminal Code RF.
The reason was their play “Finist – Clear Falcon,” which tells about women who met representatives of radical Islam on social networks. The director and playwright do not admit guilt.
https://musicnewsfirst.com/