Friday 17 August 2012

A Russian farce over a punk rock band

Three members of Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in prison today after a Russian court found them guilty of hooliganism in connection with.

A Moscow judge sentenced feminist punk rockers Pussy Riot today to two years in prison each for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred. The jail s.

Amnesty International declared Pussy Riot “prisoners of conscience” and expressed concern that they faced the danger of being sent to labor camps, where they would be at risk of physical and sexual abuse. I tried to call Putin for comment, but he ain't

His poem, a satirical polemic, is worth recalling in the wake of a decision Friday by a Moscow judge to sentence three women who make up Pussy Riot, a punk rock band, to jail for two years as a punishment for their disrespectful performance art. Loading.

They got all that plus a topless activist hacking down a cross in Ukraine, balaclavas on Soviet-era statues of soldiers in Bulgaria, and everywhere signs reading "Free Pussy Riot." The small, but raucous protests were held in a few dozen cities in


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