By Current Time

A military court in Moscow on May 3 extended the pretrial detention until at least October 22 for theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk, who were arrested in May last year on charges of justifying terrorism through the production of the play Finist -- The Brave Falcon. The play is about Russian women who married Muslim men and moved to Syria. Berkovich and Petriichuk maintain their innocence. If convicted, they face up to five years in prison. Their play, first performed in December 2022, won Russia's Golden Mask national theater award.