Thursday 2 August 2012

Pussy Riot lawyer speaks of abuse


Violetta Volkova, the lawyer acting on behalf of the three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot charged with aggravated hooliganism after performing a “punk prayer” in Moscow’s Russian Orthodox cathedral, says that her cients are being deliberately mistreated by Russian authorities. She says that Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich are woken at 5am and then kept in a tiny room without food until they are transported to court before 11 hour court sessions. If convicted the Pussy Riot face up to seven years in prison for their political anti Putin protests.

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