Pussy Riot Members Freed From Prison
 

Pussy Riot Members Freed From Prison
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Two members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been freed from prison early under new amnesty law, the BBC reports

An earlier report erroneously pegged their release date to Dec. 19, but Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were in fact released on Monday, Dec. 23

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The two women, along with third band member Ekaterina Samutsevich, were jailed in August 2012 after performing a protest punk concert in the main Moscow cathedral in February

They were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred." Samutsevich was released in October 2012, while the other two were due to be released in March 2014 Read more...

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