“..Three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot have been found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in a prison colony.
Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, were handed the sentence by a judge in Moscow amid a wave of protests around the world.
The three stared ahead defiantly from inside a glass cage, their wrists shackled in handcuffs, as the verdict was read.
Supporters and opposition activists blamed the case against the women – and the tough sentence – on Vladimir Putin…”
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