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
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)uhnope
(6,419 posts)Turn yourself in to the Kremlin NOW and they might only give you two years in the gulag.
reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)reACTIONary
(5,749 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)dissent?!!