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uhnope

(6,419 posts)
Fri Apr 4, 2014, 04:18 PM Apr 2014

Pussy Riot protesters cleared of religious hatred charge

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Two women from Russia's Pussy Riot protest group who were jailed for a song deriding President Vladimir Putin were cleared in a Moscow court on Friday of inciting religious hatred.

But the court knocked only one month off their two-year sentences, upholding a charge of hooliganism.

Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova spent nearly two years in prison after performing a protest song against Putin in Moscow's main cathedral in 2012.

Many in the West criticized the harshness of the sentence, saying it was evidence of a clamp-down on dissent.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/04/us-russia-pussyriot-idUSBREA330O320140404



Love live Pussy Riot
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Pussy Riot protesters cleared of religious hatred charge (Original Post) uhnope Apr 2014 OP
I call my cats pussy riot (when they are acting naughty). Does that mean I'm a hooligan? passiveporcupine Apr 2014 #1
Yes, you are a hooligan. uhnope Apr 2014 #2
Do they wear balaclavas? (nt) reACTIONary Apr 2014 #3
No, they prefer to wear nothing at all! n/t passiveporcupine Apr 2014 #4
Hooligans!!! (nt) reACTIONary Apr 2014 #5
Oh putin's such a fucking nice guy.. What?! him crack down on Cha Apr 2014 #6
 

uhnope

(6,419 posts)
2. Yes, you are a hooligan.
Fri Apr 4, 2014, 08:23 PM
Apr 2014

Turn yourself in to the Kremlin NOW and they might only give you two years in the gulag.

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