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International News See other International News Articles Title: Russia: Activists Supporting Band Are Detained After Demonstration
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NY Times
URL Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/09/w ... -after-demonstration.html?_r=0
Published: Mar 9, 2013
Author: REUTERS
Post Date: 2013-03-09 00:42:55 by The Blue Cat
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ussian police temporarily detained six activists protesting on Friday against the incarceration of members of the punk rock band Pussy Riot and charged them with holding a demonstration of more than one person without a permit. In front of the Federal Penitentiary Service building, activists, actors and writers took turns holding posters demanding freedom for the jailed musicians, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23. According to Russian media reports, the police made the arrests when more than one person at a time held the posters. The six were charged with administrative misdemeanors, released and handed orders for court hearings on Monday. The jailed women are serving two-year sentences for performing an anti-Kremlin prayer early last year at Moscows main Russian Orthodox cathedral. Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, a member of the band who was also jailed but released in October, was among the protesters, according to the street-art collective Voina
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