Do you think meme­ber of Pussy Riot shoud be locked up for 7 years?
Nadezhda Tolokon­nikova, 22, Maria Alekhina, 24, and Yeka­te­rina Samut­se­vich, 29: fem­i­nist activists from the group called Pussy Riot, who face up to seven years in jail if con­victed for stag­ing a peace­ful protest in an Ortho­dox church.
Their trial, which began last week and will con­tinue on Mon­day, has focused world­wide atten­tion on the grow­ing crack­down in Rus­sia since Vladimir Putin returned to the pres­i­dency in May.
A raft of repres­sive laws approved in par­lia­ment, the dubi­ous crim­i­nal pros­e­cu­tion of a promi­nent oppo­si­tion leader and a series of raids on activists’ homes have, for many Rus­sians, eclipsed the hopes of demo­c­ra­tic progress they indulged dur­ing the one-term pres­i­dency of Dmitry Medvedev, Mr Putin’s pre­de­ces­sor and ally.
Free Pussy Riot! Free Pussy Riot! Free Pussy Riot!