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Russian judges in Pussy Riot case defend their decision to keep 2 band members behind bars
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| Last Edited | Green Pigs Oct 11, 2012 07:21pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Thursday, October 11, 2012 09:45:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Russian judges who ruled to keep two of the three Pussy Riot band members behind bars took the unusual step of publicly defending their decision, saying Thursday that it was made independently and without pressure.
A panel of three judges at the Moscow City Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling to send Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina to prison for two years, but they released Yekaterina Samutsevich after giving her a suspended sentence.
Pussy Riot staged an impromptu punk performance at Moscow’s main cathedral in February in protest against President Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church hierarchy for openly supporting his rule. The three women were convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, but they insist that their protest was political in nature and not an attack on religion. |
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