Pussy Riot Member Freed
Ekaterina Samutsevich, one of the three members of the punk rock band Pussy Riot, has been freed following an appeal filed by her new attorneys. A Moscow judge today overturned her original two-year jail sentence and released Samutsevich on probation, citing circumstances surrounding her original arrest. Meanwhile, the judge upheld the two-year jail sentences for the two other band members. The Pussy Riot protesters were arrested in February after performing a blistering anti-Putin “punk prayer” from the altar of Moscow’s largest Russian Orthodox cathedral.
