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Russian court convicts punk band

Three members of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are found guilty of hooliganism, after performing an anti-Putin song in a Moscow cathedral. Ref. BBC

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Pussy Riot appeal: One freed, two remain jailed

A member of punk band Pussy Riot has been freed on appeal but a Moscow court upheld prison sentences for two others imposed over a raucous cathedral protest against Vladimir Putin, who said they had got the jail terms they deserved. Ref. Source 1

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I guess this shows that freedoms in Russia still have lengths to go. I remember my history teacher saying that Russia has always been under a tyrannical government: from the tsar to the communist party. It is little to be surprised that voicing one's opinion in Russian can sometimes be dangerous.

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I was sympathetic of the band, until I realized that the band stormed into a place of worship, mocked the faiths prayers, and in general expressed their own free speech by taking away other peoples rite of free speech. When I found that out, I wasn't sympathetic of the band anymore.

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In that photo they don't look like they're hurting any. I didn't know that they totally disrespected other places, that's pushing it way too far.

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A fictional trial is busted by real police in Russia
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Truth is often stranger than fiction in Russia, and last Sunday was no exception when immigration police and later Cossacks in furry black headgear burst into a theatrical recreation of the Pussy Riot trial at Moscow's Sakharov Centre. The policemen...
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Pussy Riot member on hunger strike

In a letter published Monday on the group's blog, Tolokonnikova says inmates in her prison are forced to work up to 17 hours a day in a shop that makes police uniforms. Ref. Source 9

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The remaining two jailed members of the activist punk band were released under President Putin's amnesty, but vow they will continue to fight for prison reform
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