Convicted of speaking their minds, or protesting the abysmal social order, 3 members of the Russian Punk Band, Pussy Riot got 2 years for protesting against Putin. The judge determined that the women "crudely undermined social order". Funny, that's pretty well the same charge the kickass feminists lodged against Putin (Watch Pussy Riot in Video below). (See Facebook)
MOSCOW — A Moscow judge handed down stiff prison sentences of two years on Friday afternoon for three young women who staged a protest against Vladimir V. Putin in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior last February and whose jailing and trial on hooliganism charges have generated worldwide criticism of constraints on political speech in Russia. The women have been in jail since March and a chorus of supporters, including some of the music world’s biggest stars, has demanded their immediate release.
Rallies in support of the women were held in dozens of cities around the world on Friday. As the judge read the lengthy verdict, hundreds of demonstrators had gathered outside the courthouse and shouted, “Free Pussy Riot!”
The saga began in February when the women infiltrated Moscow’s main cathedral wearing colorful balaclavas, and pranced around in front of the golden Holy Doors leading into the altar, dancing, chanting and lip-syncing for what would later become a music video of a profane song in which they beseeched the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Mr. Putin.
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