Three members of Punk feminist protest band Pussy Riot have been found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred in a Moscow court after their performance in February inside a Russian Orthodox cathedral. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23, Maria Alekhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29 were sentenced to two years in prison - the minimum sentence for such an offence open to the courts.
The US, EU and rights groups have condemned jail sentences imposed on three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot over an anti-Vladimir Putin protest in a Moscow cathedral.
The decision made by a Moscow court triggered a broad protests; a topless activist from the Ukrainian activist group Femen shows her support for the Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot by bringing down a wooden cross in Kiev. In Sydney, musicians stage a punk rock street concert in solidarity with the three women.
Various cities of the world became an avenue for the demonstrators to show their support for group members, such as London and Dublin, Paris, Barcelona, Belgrade, Sofia, Brussels and Warsaw.
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