Pussy Riot Members Jailed (Again!) for Protesting Outside Serbian Prison

These girls. God bless ’em. They’re just fearless, aren’t they?

Two members of the Russian punk activist group Pussy Riot are being detained after participating in a protest outside of a Siberian prison this afternoon.

Maria Alyokhina, who was famously convicted of “hooliganism” in 2012 after performing an anti-Putin “punk prayer” in a Moscow church, tweeted that she and bandmate Olga Borisova were arrested after protesting the imprisonment of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov.

She has since tweeted that the two “are alive” and awaiting trial. She also shared video and images of the protest that show a banner reading “Free Sentsov” hanging on a bridge near Sentsov’s prison.

О том, что сегодня было. И об итогах: https://t.co/padPWhRJdR pic.twitter.com/8jlHd6epTR

— Борисова (@borissssova) August 7, 2017

Алехина и Борисова ожидают начала сурового и справедливого Якутского суда за акцию в поддержку Сенцова pic.twitter.com/J7ve03GLW0

— Пётр Верзилов (@gruppa_voina) August 7, 2017

Мы с Сашей @Sofeev и Олей @borissssova в Якутском городском суде. Ждём суда за акцию #FreeSentsov pic.twitter.com/dDwXbzTim3

— Мария Алехина (@all_mary) August 7, 2017

Via HuffPo:

Sentsov, best known for his 2011 film “Gamer,” was originally arrested in Crimea, the Ukrainian region seized by Russia in 2014, and later charged with participating in a terrorist conspiracy. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail by a Russian court.

Sentsov’s family has described his experience with the Russian legal system as a “Stalin-era show trial,” while his lawyers have classified the charges against him as “absurd and fictitious.” According to The Guardian, at least 10 Ukrainian individuals were serving extended sentences in Russia as of 2016.

“For three years I’ve been sitting in a Russian prison. For those three years a war has been conducted against my country,” Sentsov wrote in a letter that was allegedly smuggled out of the Yakutsk penal colony. “The enemy is fighting like a coward, vilely, pretending he’s got nothing to do with this. Nobody believes it. But that doesn’t stop him.”

More on the story as it develops.

В Якутске только что задержали Машу @all_mary Алехину и @borissssova за вчерашнюю акцию в поддержку Сенцова https://t.co/Z6NzCdSOZ7 pic.twitter.com/P1QKBVXKPv

— Пётр Верзилов (@gruppa_voina) August 7, 2017

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