(Via USA Today)
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, the jailed members of Russian punk collective Pussy Riot will be freed soon, Reuters reports. Last year, the pair, along with Yekaterina Samutsevich, were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" and sentenced them to two years in prison. (Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova are still in prison camps, while Samutsevitch was freed last year.)
Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina are being freed because of a new amnesty bill, which, according to BBC News, pardons women with young children who have not committed violent crimes.
According to USA Today, the bill allows authorities a six-month period to carry out the amnesty, meaning it could take weeks or months before the two women are released. They are currently sentenced through February.
Read more at USA Today
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, the jailed members of Russian punk collective Pussy Riot will be freed soon, Reuters reports. Last year, the pair, along with Yekaterina Samutsevich, were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" and sentenced them to two years in prison. (Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova are still in prison camps, while Samutsevitch was freed last year.)
Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina are being freed because of a new amnesty bill, which, according to BBC News, pardons women with young children who have not committed violent crimes.
According to USA Today, the bill allows authorities a six-month period to carry out the amnesty, meaning it could take weeks or months before the two women are released. They are currently sentenced through February.
Read more at USA Today
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