Svetlana Petriychuk was transferred to Mozhaysk IK-5 after 10 days in the Noginsk transit detention center, her husband, Yuri Shekhvatov, reported.
About 700 convicted women are held in this colony, working in sewing production and a bakery.
Zhenya Berkovich*, convicted in the same case of 'justifying terrorism', was previously transferred to IK-3 Pribrezhnoye in the Kostroma region.
Zhenya Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk were found guilty of 'public justification of terrorism'. The reason for the prosecution was the play 'Finist the Bright Falcon', based on real stories of Russian women who met ISIS members online and went to Syria to marry militants. The criminal case was initiated after a report by the artistic director of the Nizhny Novgorod theater, Vladimir Karpuk. He considered the play 'Russophobic'.
In July 2024, the court sentenced them to 6 years in a general regime colony. On December 25, 2024, on appeal, their terms were 'softened' by several months, excluding the charge of distributing the video recording of the play on the internet. As a result, Berkovich was sentenced to 5 years and 7 months in the colony, Petriychuk — 5 years and 10 months.
'I won't lie, I send a mental greeting to Mr. Karpuk at every assembly. At -12 at 6:15 in the morning, in the standard uniform. I hope he and several others personally responsible for our sentence feel a chill somewhere around the second vertebra at these moments. Just don't eat them, because they love to scream about threats and all that. God is not me. Mikishka, he has his own book,' wrote Berkovich in a letter from the colony.
* Listed as 'terrorists and extremists'.
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