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Pussy Riot film showing online
By Aly Barchi | Published on Tuesday 15 October 2013
An acclaimed documentary about incarcerated Russian radicals Pussy Riot, titled ‘A Punk Prayer’, is watchable online via BBC iPlayer, where it premiered yesterday a week ahead of its TV air-date.
As much previously reported, three members of the all-female punk group were tried and convicted last year on a “hooliganism” charge after performing an anti-government protest song in a Moscow church.
Whilst one of the three, Yekaterina Samustsev, was freed back in October, the other two, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, remain in jail, with the latter recently going on a hunger strike over objections to the conditions at the prison camp in which she’s being held.
Watch the award-winning ‘Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer’, part of the BBC’s Storyville doc collection, here.
