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Russian punk rockers on trial Members of a Russian feminist punk rock band are found guilty of hooliganism for holding a protest against Vladimir Putin inside a cathedral.
Aug. 17, 2012
From left, band members Yekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass-walled cage during a court hearing in Moscow.
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Aug. 17, 2012
Alyokhina, Tolokonnikova and Samutsevich are escorted before a court hearing in Moscow. The band members on Friday were found guilty of hooliganism for trying to hold a protest concert in March in Moscow’s main cathedral calling for the Virgin Mary to protect Russia against Vladimir Putin, who was running for a third term as president.
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Aug. 17, 2012
Lawyer Violetta Volkova, center, defending members of the feminist punk rock group, accompanies Russian protest leader Alexei Navalny, second right, to a court room, to watch the trial, in Moscow. Volkova’s clients face a maximum seven years in prison. The sentence is to be pronounced later Friday.
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Aug. 17, 2012
Jiva Manske, right, of Amnesty International members joins activists from around the world to show their support for three members of Pussy Riot during the Global Day of Solidarity for Pussy Riot outside the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Aug. 17, 2012
Frank Gomez and fellow protesters, many of them Amnesty International members, join activists from around the world to show their support for three members of Pussy Riot during the Global Day of Solidarity for Pussy Riot outside the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C.
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Aug. 17, 2012
Supporters of the Russian female punk band Pussy Riot, including one holding a sign, left, in Russian that reads: "Freedom for Tolokonnikova," protest outside the Russian embassy in Berlin. Similar support protests have been held around the globe.
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Aug. 17, 2012
Supporters of the Russian female punk band protest outside the Russian embassy in Berlin.
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Aug. 17, 2012
Supporters place masks on a monument to World War II heroes at an underground station in Moscow. The band members wear similar masks when they perform.
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Aug. 17, 2012
A man plays a guitar while resting on the base of a monument to Kazakh poet Abai Kunanbaev in Moscow with the face covered with a mask to resemble feminist punk group.
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Aug. 17, 2012
Figures of the monument of the Soviet Army with colorful hoods on heads in central Sofia. An unknown artist has placed the hoods in sign of support, local media reports.
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Aug. 8, 2012
Tolokonnikova gestures before a court hearing in Moscow.
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Aug. 8, 2012
Alekhina is escorted to a courtroom in Moscow.
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Aug. 8, 2012
From left, Alekhina and Samutsevich sit in the defendant's cell before a court hearing in Moscow.
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Reuters
Aug. 8, 2012
A supporter of the band is detained by police.
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Aug. 8, 2012
Tolokonnikova is escorted to a police van after a court hearing in Moscow.
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July 30, 2012
Tolokonnikova and Alekhina look out from the defendants' cage in the courtroom.
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July 30, 2012
Tolokonnikova, Samutsevich and Alekhina behind bars during a court hearing.
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July 31, 2012
Alekhina is escorted into a courthouse in Moscow.
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July 31, 2012
Tolokonnikova is escorted to court.
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July 20, 2012
From left, Samutsevich, Tolokonnikova and Alekhina sit behind bars before a court hearing.
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July 4, 2012
Tolokonnikova sits inside the defendants' cage.
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July 4, 2012
Supporters of the band rally outside the Moscow court building during the hearings.
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July 23, 2012
Artist Pyotr Pavlensky, a supporter of the jailed punk rockers, looks on with his mouth sewed up as he protests outside the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. A court rejected a defense request to call Putin and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to testify in the trial.
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Feb. 21, 2012
The band tries to perform at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow.
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July 2, 2012
Members of the band who remain free perform during a concert by U.S. rock group Faith No More in Moscow as a show of support for the jailed rockers. According to local media, more than a hundred Russian artists and musicians have signed a letter addressed to state authorities to free and stop court procedures against the three jailed members of the band.
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