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Pussy Riot two hope to take case to Russian Supreme Court
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 8 July 2013
Lawyers for the two members of Pussy Riot jailed for their involvement in a protest performance are set to take the case to Russia’s Supreme Court.
As previously reported, three members of the Russian punk outfit were jailed last August for taking part in the performance of a protest song in a Moscow church. One of the jailed women, Yekaterina Samustsev, was given a suspended sentence on appeal and freed, but Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova remained incarcerated after the appeal hearing. More recently both were denied parole.
Lawyers hope to argue in the Russian Supreme Court that the ruling that members of Pussy Riot were guilty of ‘hooliganism motivated by religious hatred’ was in fact illegal, and the convictions should therefore be reversed.
