The Courage of Pussy Riot

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According to the Guardian, the detention of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alehina, members of the feminist anarchist punk-rock collective Pussy Riot has been extended indefinitely.  Their crime?  Back in February, the group performed (and filmed) a protest song in Christ the Redeemer Cathedral in Moscow.

This was an astonishingly courageous thing to do in Putin's Russia.  Predictably, the police grabbed who they could and slung them in jail, where they remain with no trial in sight, apparently because the government doesn't have much of a case.  Because Pussy Riot performs in masks, it's not even certain that the women they arrested were part of the protest.

You can read about it here.

And you can view the video that has three brave young women in jail, facing charges of "hooliganism" that might result in a seven-year sentence below.

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