Russian playwright and director given six years in jail for ‘justifying terrorism’
by Agence France-Presse in Moscow from World news | The Guardian on (#6P2H8)
Yevgeniya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk's charges were based on play about women marrying jihadists in Syria
A Russian military court has sentenced a playwright and a theatre director to six years in prison on charges of justifying terrorism" in a play about women marrying jihadists in Syria.
The judge sentenced director Yevgeniya Berkovich and writer Svetlana Petriychuk after moving their trial behind closed doors.
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