Sometimes there’s good news:
Pussy Riot members Nadya Tolokonnikova, 24, and Maria Alekhina, 25, will be freed from prison three months before their scheduled release, according to Reuters. The two women and fellow band member Yekaterina Samutsevich were arrested for performing Punk Prayer: Mother of God Drive Putin Away from Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral on Feb. 21, 2012. Their crime: “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred or hostility.”
Full Story: USA Today: Pussy Riot members to be freed from prison
Update: They’re out now
December 20, 2013 at 5:54 pm
That is good news! Thanks for reporting this; I hadn’t known it before reading the news here. Last I’d read, people were saying they had ‘disappeared’. I was dreading the worst. So, GOOD that they’re alive and being released.