Evgeniya Berkovich

A theater director and poet, she has two adopted daughters in her care, one of whom is a minor.

Yevgenia Berkovich was accused of justifying terrorism because of the play Finist the Brave Falcon. The production is based on real stories of women who left to join Islamists. The court sentenced Yevgenia Berkovich to 6 years in prison. Later, an appellate court reduced the sentence to 5 years and 7 months in a general regime penal colony.

2020s

Cases of justifying terrorism

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The final statement

‘Stop torturing my grandmother and my children.’

Stop torturing my grandmother and my children.

That’s all.

Second Western District Military Court, Moscow, Russia

8 July 2024

Source: Lawyer Ksenia Karpinskaya

More information about the case: Memorial

Photo: Yana Irtenyeva