Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Court extends jail time for anti-Putin rockers



Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the feminist punk band, Pussy Riot, sits behind bars in Moscow's Tagansky district court, Wednesday, June 20, 2012. She and two other band members face up to seven years on hooliganism charges after their February "punk prayer" at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral in which they asked Holy Mary to deliver Russia from President Vladimir Putin.(AP Photo/Misha Japaridze) A court ruled Wednesday that three members of a punk band who stormed the pulpit of Moscow's main Orthodox church and asked for Russia to be freed from Vladimir Putin will remain in jail until late July.





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