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Pussy Riot member loses parole ruling appeal
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 25 July 2013
Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina has failed to have a decision made by a parole board in May overturned, meaning she will remain in jail for performing that protest song in a Moscow cathedral last year.
As previously reported, Alyokhina was one of two Pussy Riot members controversially jailed last summer for the political protest. The two members of the punk group were found guilty of ‘hooliganism motivated by religious hatred’, despite condemnation of the prosecution by artists and politicians around the world.
Both Alyokhina and her fellow Pussy Riot jailee Nadezhda Tolokonnikova applied for parole earlier this year, but both were turned down. Alyokhina appealed the parole board’s decision, but – according to Reuters – her appeal has now been knocked back.
As previously reported, lawyers for Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova still hope to appeal the conviction itself to the Russian Supreme Court.
