5 members of Pussy Riot have been sentenced in absentia for a 2024 anti-war protest and their 2022 music video for “Mama, Don’t Watch TV.” As reported in Mediazona, the jail phrases vary from eight to 13 years for violating Article 207.3 of the Russian Legal Code, which criminalizes the spreading of “false data” in regards to the armed forces.
The fees stem from an April 2024 protest at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne museum, the place Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina, Alina Petrova, and Anastasia “Taso” Pletner condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Throughout their efficiency, the group referred to as Vladimir Putin a warfare felony, and Pletner urinated on a portrait of the Russian president.
In the meantime, prosecutors claimed Alyokhina, Pletner, Olga Borisova, Diana Burkot, and Alina Petrova unfold “false data” about Russian troopers killing Ukrainian civilians of their “Mama, Don’t Watch TV” video.
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In making their case, prosecutors argued that Alyokhina “holds left-wing political opinions” and the group members as a complete “oppose the present authorities” in Russia.
Moscow’s Basmanny District Courtroom sentenced co-founder Maria Alyokhina to 13 years and 15 days in jail in absentia. Taso Pletner acquired 11 years, whereas Olga Borisova, Diana Burkot, and Alina Petrova every acquired eight-year sentences.
Alyokhina famously escaped from Russia in April 2022 by disguising herself as a meals courier amid a authorities crackdown on anti-war protesters.
Earlier this 12 months, a brand new Russian regulation was handed that made it a punishable offense to merely seek for content material deemed “extremist.” This included a number of Pussy Riot movies already on the justice ministry’s listing.