Pussy Riot's newly released members have been arrested again in Sochi, in the final week of the Winter Olympics on Monday Feb 17,2014
Nadzehda Tolokonnikova and her bandmate Maria Alyokhina both tweeted on Feb 18,2014 Tuesday morning that they had been arrested
Maria Alyokhina tweeted: "We were detained at the church of the Archangel Michael in Sochi on criminal charges. We were bundled by force into a paddy wagon [police car]. We did not resist, but they beat us."
Both tweeted pictures of themselves inside the prison van.
The Voina Group, a political opposition group in Russia linked to Pussy Riot, tweeted
that the pair were in Sochi to perform and record a music video for a
new Pussy Riot song: "Putin Will Teach You To Love The Motherland".
Arrested Pussy Riot members are released
Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were being held on suspicion of theft.
The two band members and three other women emerged from the police station in Sochi wearing their trademark ski masks after their brief detention.
Note
Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were convicted for performing an obscenity-laced song called Punk Prayer in Moscow's Christ the Saviour cathedral in February 2012.
The song was heavily critical of the Orthodox Church's support for the president, calling on the Virgin Mary to "throw Putin out".
The three were held without bail until their trial in late July when they were convicted and sentenced to two years in prison.
The women - both mothers of young children - faced tough conditions inside Russia's prison system and had a number of parole requests turned down.
Yekaterina Samutsevich was freed on probation in October 2012, but Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina remained in jail.
Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sentences were due to end in March 2014, but their release became inevitable in December 2013 after an amnesty law was signed by the Russian parliament, covering at least 20,000 prisoners, including mothers.
Russian Prsident Vladimir Putin's critics see the amnesty as a bid to avoid controversy overshadowing Russia's hosting of the Winter Olympics in February. Maria Alyokhina - the first of the duo to be freed from jail - told a Russian TV channel that the amnesty was a PR stunt and she would rather have remained in prison.
Nadzehda Tolokonnikova and her bandmate Maria Alyokhina both tweeted on Feb 18,2014 Tuesday morning that they had been arrested
Maria Alyokhina tweeted: "We were detained at the church of the Archangel Michael in Sochi on criminal charges. We were bundled by force into a paddy wagon [police car]. We did not resist, but they beat us."
Both tweeted pictures of themselves inside the prison van.
Arrested Pussy Riot members are released
Two members of the
Russian protest group Pussy Riot who were arrested on Monday near the
Winter Olympics resort of Sochi have been released.
The two band members and three other women emerged from the police station in Sochi wearing their trademark ski masks after their brief detention.
Note
Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were convicted for performing an obscenity-laced song called Punk Prayer in Moscow's Christ the Saviour cathedral in February 2012.
The song was heavily critical of the Orthodox Church's support for the president, calling on the Virgin Mary to "throw Putin out".
The three were held without bail until their trial in late July when they were convicted and sentenced to two years in prison.
The women - both mothers of young children - faced tough conditions inside Russia's prison system and had a number of parole requests turned down.
Yekaterina Samutsevich was freed on probation in October 2012, but Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina remained in jail.
Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sentences were due to end in March 2014, but their release became inevitable in December 2013 after an amnesty law was signed by the Russian parliament, covering at least 20,000 prisoners, including mothers.
Russian Prsident Vladimir Putin's critics see the amnesty as a bid to avoid controversy overshadowing Russia's hosting of the Winter Olympics in February. Maria Alyokhina - the first of the duo to be freed from jail - told a Russian TV channel that the amnesty was a PR stunt and she would rather have remained in prison.
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