Pussy Riot band member denied parole

April 27, 2013 01:06

BBC: A court in north-eastern Russia has denied parole to one of the jailed members of the punk band, Pussy Riot. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who is serving a two-year sentence, had been eligible for early release from a penal colony. She and two other members of Pussy Riot were convicted in August of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred. They were arrested after performing an obscenity-laced "punk prayer" in protest against President Vladimir Putin at Moscow's main cathedral.

An appeals court suspended the sentence of one of the convicted women, Yekaterina Samutsevich, in October, but upheld the jail terms for Ms Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhin.

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