Pussy Riot

Russian police temporarily detained six activists protesting against the incarceration of punk rockers Pussy Riot and charged them with breaking rules on demonstrations.

Jailed Pussy Riot protester Maria Alyokhina has lost an appeal to be freed and have her sentence deferred so she could care for her 5-year-old son.

Two women from punk band Pussy Riot sentenced to jail for an anti-Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral face harsh, Soviet-style prison camps where their lives may be in danger due to a lack of medicine and no hot water amid sub-zero winter temperatures, according to a recently released band member.

Two female members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot convicted of protesting against President Vladimir Putin in a cathedral have been sent to prisons far from Moscow despite requesting to serve out their terms in the capital, a lawyer says.

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.

Peace activist Yoko Ono has joined the prominent call to free the three imprisoned Pussy Riot punk band members, saluting their stand for freedom of speech after being handed a two-year sentence for staging a "punk prayer" in Moscow's main cathedral.

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Two women were found stabbed to death in a Russian apartment with the words "Free Pussy Riot" written on the wall in what was probably blood, investigators say, stirring more passion over the women jailed for a protest in a church.

A lawyer for the jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot has appealed against the three women's conviction for a protest against President Vladimir Putin at a church altar, but said he had little hope the verdict would be overturned.

Two members of Russia's anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot have fled the country to avoid prosecution for staging a protest against President Vladimir Putin at a church altar, the band says.