: :inin Kyiv (EET)

Two Pussy Riot members detained over protest in Siberian city


MOSCOW: Russian police on Monday detained two members of Pussy Riot after they staged a protest in support of a jailed Ukrainian filmmaker in a Siberian city.
Maria Alyokhina, one of the punk rock group’s members previously jailed for a protest against President Vladimir Putin, wrote on Twitter that she and Olga Borisova were being held in Yakutsk.
Alyokhina tweeted that they had been taken to a police station after protesting in support of filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year term for “terrorist” offences in Yakutsk, almost 5,000 kilometres (3,000 miles) east of Moscow.
“We’re in Yakutsk police station No. 2,” …read more

Source: Free Malaysia Today

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