Dictatorship jailed members of punk bank Pussy Riot as Russia musician pleads for court leniency

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Pussy Riot punk pleads for release from prison camp

AFP – Jailed Pussy Riot punk Nadezhda Tolokonnikova on Friday pleaded to be released on parole from her two-year sentence, arguing that she had already spent enough time in prison camp for their protest against President Vladimir Putin. “I have spent enough time in the prison camp, I’ve had enough of studying.”