Pussy Riot stages their protest performance inside Christ The Saviour Cathedralin Moscow, Feb. 21, in this still image taken from video. |
Saturday 18 August 2012
Government Sentences Rock Band to Two Years in Jail for Religious Offense
Posted on 02:56 by john mical
CBC NEWS
RUSSIA---On Friday, after something of a show trial, three young women in a Russian punk band [Pussy Riot] were found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison for an anti-Vladimir Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral earlier this year. Western governments and rights groups condemned the harsh sentence – even the Russian Orthodox Church had asked for clemency. Also on Friday, as the Pussy Riot sentences came out, the top court in Moscow upheld the city's ban on gay pride marches for the next 100 years. [link]
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