Dissident and Pussy Riot Russia musician starts hunger strike in Siberian gulag in protest

Residents encouraged to sign up on Voter Registration Day

Members of the all-girl punk band “Pussy Riot” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (C), Maria Alyokhina (R) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (L), sit behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow on July 20, 2012. Three members of the all-woman punk band “Pussy Riot” were detained, on charche of hooliganism for barging into a Moscow church and singing a “punk prayer” calling for the ouster of President Vladimir Putin on February 21, 2012″. The trio, who face up to seven years in jail, have been held in pre-trial detention since March after the incident in February, and their harsh treatment has become a new rallying cause for the anti-Putin opposition. AFP PHOTO / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA (Photo credit should read NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/GettyImages)

Today is national Voter Registration Day and civic organizations have been reaching out to people all day encouraging them to sign up so they’ll have a voice at the ballot box. Jailed Russian Punk Band Member Declares Hunger Strike.

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