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"A blatant attack on artistic freedom by Russian authorities," says Polina Sadovskaya, Ph.D. "Labeling these artists as terrorists or extremists is a grave injustice," says Julie Trébault. Read the full statement from PEN America and the Artists at Risk Connection (ARC) In response to today’s sentencing by a Moscow court of theater director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk to six years in a maximum-security penal colony on charges of “justifying terrorism”:

Moscow Court Sentences Playwright and Director in Ongoing Crackdown on Free Expression

Moscow Court Sentences Playwright and Director in Ongoing Crackdown on Free Expression

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