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A few months into her sentence, she took the abusive guards to court and won the first case against prison guards in the history of her penal colony.
The new two members of the band Pussy Riot who remain behind bars lost an appeal to serve out the length of their two-year sentences at a Moscow pre-trial detention center on Monday.
Pussy Riot played their song "Smert tyurme, svobodu protestu" ("Death To Prison, Freedom To Protests"), a pun on the Yugoslav Partisan World War II slogan "Death to fascism, freedom to the people", and were applauded by the prisoners watching from inside the bars of the jail cell windows.
Maria Alyokhina was sent to a penal colony as a member of the feminist punk collective. Authorities "teach you how to forget your right to choose," she says. She urges Griner "to not forget...
Federal penitentiary authorities have yet to announce where the Pussy Riot members will be sent. By law, convicts serving more than a six-month sentence must be moved from SIZO centers to...
Members of the punk protest band Pussy Riot were just released from jail after spending nearly two years in a penal colony for a controversial performance at a Moscow church in 2012, but they...
After the biggest prisoner exchange between Russia and the West since the Cold War, Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova, who spent nearly two years in a Russian penal colony, told CNN what she...