Playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, who was arrested in the case of “justifying terrorism” because of the performance “Finist Yasny Sokol”, was placed in a pre-trial detention center for preventive registration as “a person prone to committing crimes of a terrorist nature and extremist orientation.” This is reported by the channel run by Petriychuk's supporters.
“The basis for putting a suspect, accused or convicted person on a preventive record is the presence of reliable and verified information about his intentions to commit an offense or about a negative impact on other persons, as well as medical and psychological indications,” paragraph 8 of the General Provisions in the order of the Ministry of Justice says.
In practice, this may mean changing the conditions of detention at the discretion of the administration, preventive conversations and special control, the channel says.
Svetlana Petriychuk and director Zhenya Berkovich, who was arrested with her, have been in jail since May 5. Their play, which opened the case, tells about girls who left Russia to marry radical Islamists. The performance was staged in 2020, and in 2022 it received the Golden Mask award in two categories. In early May 2023, it became known that participants in the National Liberation Movement of Russia had written a denunciation of the play.