“Theater Director Yevgenia Berkovich Taken Into Custody for Justifying Terrorism in Moscow Court Case”

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow has taken theater director Yevgenia Berkovich into custody in the case of justifying terrorism.

“The petition of the investigation is to satisfy, to elect a preventive measure in the form of detention for two months, until July 4, in relation to Berkovich,” The judge announced the decision Natalia Cheprasova.

The investigator for the investigation of particularly important cases of the Russian Investigative Committee for Moscow substantiated his petition by the fact that, at large, the figurant can hide from court, destroy evidence, or otherwise interfere with law enforcement agencies.

director’s lawyer Ksenia Karpinskaya stated that Berkovich’s defense plans to appeal her arrest.

“We believe that the court did not take into account a number of our arguments in the course of making a decision to send Berkovich to custody and will file an appeal against him,” she told reporters.

Recall that a criminal case was initiated against Berkovich under Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for terrorist activities, public justification of terrorism or propaganda of terrorism).

According to the results of a multi-page destructological examination, her performance “Finist the Bright Falcon” about women who met representatives of radical Islam on social networks contained signs of justifying terrorism, the ideology of the Islamic State terrorist group banned in Russia.* and jihadism. Berkovich herself pleaded not guilty.

*Terrorist organization, banned on the territory of the Russian Federation