Pussy Riot duo sent to remote penal colony [View all]

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Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Two members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot have lost their appeal to serve their sentence in a Moscow pre-trial detention centre.

They will now serve the remainder of their terms in a remote penal colony, where conditions are much tougher.

A Moscow court last week upheld the two-year jail sentences imposed on Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Maria Alyokhina, 24, over a cathedral protest against Vladimir Putin.

They were convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-16/pussy-riot-duo-sent-to-remote-penal-colony/4314908?section=entertainment

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