Russian authorities on July 22 jailed Pussy Riot member Rita Flores for 15 days on charges of disobeying police, an arrest the group said was for “no damn reason.”
The Moscow Times: Why is Russia arresting Pussy Riot members?
(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 18, 2014 members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot wearing masks, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (L) and Maria Alyokhina (R) speak to journalists while leaving the police station of Adler, near Sochi, after her arrest earlier in the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
The European Court of Human Rights condemned Russia in two separate judgements on July 17, 2018 over its investigation into murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya and its treatment of the protest group Pussy Riot. A case involved three members of Pussy Riot, the feminist punk group which made headlines worldwide in 2012 when the women were arrested for performing a protest song in a Moscow church titled "Punk Prayer -- Virgin Mary, Drive Putin Away". The court concluded that Russia had violated their human rights by subjecting them to "humiliating and intimidating" treatment, not providing a fair trial and not allowing them freedom of expression. / AFP PHOTO / Andrej ISAKOVIC
