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Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29

Two years each in a “prison colony”.

Two.

The three stared ahead defiantly from inside a glass cage, their wrists shackled in handcuffs, as the verdict was read. Supporters and opposition activists blamed the case against the women – and the tough sentence – on Vladimir Putin.

“Whatever Putin wants, Putin gets. That is the only thing to say,” Tolokonnikova’s husband, Pyotr Verzilov, said on leaving the court.

 

Pussy Riot Sentenced To Two Years Of Hard Labour (Guardian)

Meanwhile:

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Garry Kasparov, now an opposition political figure in Russia, arrested during protests outside the Pussy Riot trial in Moscow within the last hour.

The all-girl punk group has been found guilty having “committed a serious breach of public order, motivated by religious hatred” and engaged in “provocative and insulting acts in a religious building”. They will be sentenced later today.

Pussy Riot Trial – Live (AFP)

Pic via Olaf Koens

Update: Pussy Riot Trio Jailed For Two Years Each Over Hooliganism By Russian Court (RTE)

The Amnesty Ireland-organised Pussy Riot demo at The Spire within the last 30 minutes.

Earlier

‘We Are All Hooligans’: Pussy Riot Protest (San Fransisco Chronicle)

Via Will St Leger and Barney McGrew and David Guiney.

Update: