Friday, August 17, 2012

They certainly are paying the price for their art. When is their probationary period?

Gee, whiz, it isn't as though they were caught dealing drugs or something.

Moscow needs to provide an incentive for good behavior, so they need to know when they can receive probation for good behavior.

I don't think they did any damage to the church, did they?

They could do public service at the church for their probation, too. I hate to say this about Russia, but, I get the feeling feminism is a real issue there. I don't recall a Punk Rock guy band going to these extremes to be recognized.


MOSCOW, August 17 (RIA Novosti)
18:35 17/08/2012

Three members of the feminist punk collective Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years prison on Friday after being convicted of hooliganism and inciting religious hatred by a Moscow district court.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, were convicted for staging an anti-Kremlin “punk prayer” in a central Moscow cathedral in February.
The three have already spent more than five months in pretrial detention, which, according to Russian legislation, equals ten months in prison....


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