Finally, the Russian Prosecutor's Office today requested three years in prison for the three members of the punk group Pussy Riot, who are accused of singing against the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, at the altar of a Moscow cathedral. When requesting the sentence, the prosecution considered that during the investigation it was demonstrated that the members of the group, Tatiana Tolokónnikova, María Aliójina and Yekaterina Samutsévich, committed the crime of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred".
The penalty requested by prosecutors is four years less than the maximum contemplated in the penal code for this crime. Let us remember that in the events, on February 21 of this year, five members of Pussy Riot They broke into a restricted area under the hood of the altar of the Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer, the main Russian Orthodox temple. There, they began to play the electric guitar, sing and dance in their underwear.
"Mother of God, cast out Putin," read the song, in which the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kiril, was accused of believing in the president of Russia and not in God. Three of the members of the group were arrested: the other two participants in the action could not be identified. We will see how this story continues, which is being widely followed by the international musical community.
Via | EFE