РУС staging.vestochka.io
Svetlana Petriichuk

Svetlana Petriichuk

Moscow

45 yr old (born in 22.04.1980)

Address: 143202 Московская область, Можайский р-н, п. им. Дзержинского, д.1, ФКУ «ИК № 5 УФСИН по Московской области», Петрийчук Светлана Александровна, 1980 г.р.

Write a letter

Petriichuk is a playwright, author of the play "Finist Yasniy Sokol" ("Finist, the Brave Falcon") about women who cast their lot with radical Islamists. The play became the reason for a case of public justification of terrorism. On 4 May 2023 Petriichuk was detained at the airport, the next day she was taken into custody. On 31 May 2024 it became known that Petriichuk was registered as prone to terrorism and extremism.
On 13 June 2024, the court closed the trial, satisfied the prosecution's demand. The prosecutor claimed that one of the witnesses who had appeared in court earlier had been receiving threats.
On 8 July 2024, Petriichuk was sentenced to six years in a general regime penal colony. On 25 December 2024, the court of appeal reduced the sentence by two months.

You can read more about politically persecuted people in the Telegram channel OVD-Info LIVE and our database of politically motivated criminal prosecutions.

Svetlana Petriichuk
will receive your letter

You can also send a paper letter via regular mail. More details on how to do this can be found in the instructions on the "Open Space" website, the material from which was used in this text.

Address: 143202 Московская область, Можайский р-н, п. им. Дзержинского, д.1, ФКУ «ИК № 5 УФСИН по Московской области», Петрийчук Светлана Александровна, 1980 г.р.

How to write the letter?

Getting started
What can I write about?
On censorship: what can’t I write?
Is it allowed to send photographs?
What language do I use in my letter?
What are the limits on sending letters?
Should I expect a reply and do I have to respond?
How do I maintain the correspondence?
I would like to send letters by myself, how do I do it?
How else can I support Russian dissidents?
It says that the prisoner I was assigned was tried for terrorism, or extremism or something else scary, what’s up with that?