Five members of Pussy Riot have been sentenced in absentia for a 2024 anti-war protest and their 2022 music video for “Mama, Don’t Watch TV.” As reported in Mediazona , the prison terms range from eight to 13 years for violating Article 207.3 of the Russian Criminal Code, which criminalizes the spreading of “false information” about the armed forces.

The charges stem from an April 2024 protest at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne museum, where Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina , Alina Petrova, and Anastasia “Taso” Pletner condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. During their performance, the group called Vladimir Putin a war criminal, and Pletner urinated on a portrait of the Russian president.

Meanwhile, prosecutors claimed Alyokhina, Pletner, Olga Borisova, Diana Burkot, and Al

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