FullyAlive
July 30th, 2012, 04:34 PM
A Russian court has ruled that three members of a punk band arrested after singing a protest song in Moscow's main Orthodox church will remain in custody.
The trio, part of a band called Pussy Riot, will now stay in pre-trial detention for a further six months, until 12 January 2013.
They are charged with hooliganism and could get seven years in prison. The hearing is being held behind closed doors while supporters and opponents of Pussy Riot demonstrate outside.
Court spokeswoman Darya Lyakh said the next hearing in the trial would take place next week, on 23 July, when, according to Interfax, the court would name a date for the case to be heard.
The women were arrested in February after storming the altar of Christ the Saviour Cathedral, shocking worshippers.
More than 100 prominent Russian actors, directors and musicians have urged the authorities to release the three - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Mariya Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich.
They have been in pre-trial detention since March.
I believe that it was done as a stunt against Putin, and just wondered if anyone had any thoughts. Personally whilst they may have done it without really thinking about the consequences surely living in Russia they would have known what would happen and two of them being mothers to young children I would have hoped they might have known better.
Full story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18921225
The trio, part of a band called Pussy Riot, will now stay in pre-trial detention for a further six months, until 12 January 2013.
They are charged with hooliganism and could get seven years in prison. The hearing is being held behind closed doors while supporters and opponents of Pussy Riot demonstrate outside.
Court spokeswoman Darya Lyakh said the next hearing in the trial would take place next week, on 23 July, when, according to Interfax, the court would name a date for the case to be heard.
The women were arrested in February after storming the altar of Christ the Saviour Cathedral, shocking worshippers.
More than 100 prominent Russian actors, directors and musicians have urged the authorities to release the three - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Mariya Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich.
They have been in pre-trial detention since March.
I believe that it was done as a stunt against Putin, and just wondered if anyone had any thoughts. Personally whilst they may have done it without really thinking about the consequences surely living in Russia they would have known what would happen and two of them being mothers to young children I would have hoped they might have known better.
Full story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18921225