Monday, July 30, 2012
"Pussy Riot" on trial for cathedral protest
Three women who protested Vladimir Putin in a "punk prayer" on the altar of Russia's main cathedral on trial on Monday.
The band 'Pussy Riot' face up to seven years in prison for an unsanctioned performance in February in which they entered Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral, ascended the altar and called on the Virgin Mary to "throw Putin out!"
Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, were brought to Moscow's Khamovniki court.
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