guardian.co.uk,
Associated Press, Sunday 26 August 2012
A Pussy Riot protest performance in January: two activists have now fled Russia and are 'recruiting foreign feminists to prepare new protest actions'. Photograph: Denis Sinyakov/Reuters |
The Russian
punk band Pussy Riot says two of its members who were being sought by police
have left the country.
Five
members of the feminist group took part in a provocative performance inside
Moscow's main cathedral in February to protest against Vladimir Putin's rule
and his relationship with the Russian Orthodox church.
The women
wore their trademark balaclavas and only three were identified and arrested.
After a controversial trial, they were sentenced on 17 August to two years inprison.
Days later,
Moscow police said they were searching for the others, in what was seen as a
warning to the group to stop its anti-Putin protests.
Pussy Riot
tweeted on Sunday that the two activists had fled Russia and are
"recruiting foreign feminists to prepare new protest actions".
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