Pussy Riot are out
Nieuws, gepost door: nn op 24/12/2013 12:02:16
Wanneer: 24/12/2013 - 15:39
few month's prior to the ends of their sentences Maria Alyohina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were released from captivity of russian state due to narrow amnesty order signed by the president
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M9yUcm2TOKo
'Amnestied Russian punk band pair criticize Putin after release
(Reuters) - Two members of Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot freed from prison on Monday derided President Vladimir Putin's amnesty that led to their early release as a propaganda stunt and promised to fight for human rights.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 24, shouted "Russia without Putin" following her release from a Siberian prison, hours after band mate Maria Alyokhina, 25, was freed from jail in the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod.
The women had two months left to serve but walked free days after a pardon from Putin freed former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky eight months before the end of his more than 10-year jail term, decisions widely seen as intended to improve Russia's image before it hosts the Winter Olympics in February.
"It is a disgusting and cynical act," Tolokonnikova, looking relaxed in a black coat and chequered shirt, told Reuters at her grandmother's apartment building in the snowbound Siberian city of Kransoyarsk where she was jailed. ...'
... Verder lezen op http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/23/us-russia-pussyriot-release-id... .
If we want justice for the women imprisoned and to show true solidarity, we need to not only denounce the injustice by the Russian state, but also denounce the violence by the men from Voina. We need to recognise and openly denounce the pandemic levels of sexual violence present in most male-centric leftist or anarchist activist groups, whereby women are often pimped by the men of the group for pornography or expected to submit to extremely violent or degrading acts in the name of “sexual freedom”.
http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2012/08/22/pussy-riot-whose-freedom-whose-riot/