Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich has been released from prison after her two year prison term for a conviction of 'hooliganism motivated by religious hatred' was reduced to a suspended sentence on appeal yesterday. However, at the same appeal hearing her fellow band members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina had their original sentences upheld and therefore will remain in prison, pending further appeals. Both continue to argue that their protests against Vladimir Putin were political and not religious.
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