Three members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in prison for staging an anti-Putin protest inside a Russian church. On February 21, members of Pussy Riot rushed before the altar of Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior, where they danced, genuflected and issued a "punk prayer," exhorting the Virgin Mary to "get Putin out." Their imprisonment for the peaceful protest has sparked a massive outcry around the world, with protests planned today in some three dozen cities. Speaking to Democracy Now!, a representative for Pussy Riot’s legal defense team called the case a "political put-up job." "It’s impossible to understand for people living in democracy how it is possible to live in the system of disregard of the law," said Alisa Obraztsova, an assistant to the lawyers representing Pussy Riot. "[The] only way is to believe the society and not the......

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