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Three women and one man, members of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot, were sentenced to 15 days in prison on Monday. At issue: their brief appearance on the football field in the final of the World Cup, dressed in police uniforms, Sunday in Moscow.
They were also banned from attending sports events for three years for having "seriously violated the rules of spectator behavior."
53-minute breakout
The four troublemakers briefly entered the Moscow lawn on Sunday before being intercepted by the stewards in the 53rd minute of the France-Croatia final of World Cup 2018.
The game quickly resumed. France led 2 to 1 at that time, it finally imposed 4-2.
A few minutes later, the Russian group Pussy Riot said, on its pages on Twitter and Facebook that its members were at the same time Origin of the intrusion
They took the opportunity to also disseminate a list of six requests such as: "Release all political prisoners.
The others spoke of the end of the arrests during peaceful demonstrations and "the authorization of political competition in the country."
The most famous action of the Pussy Riot dates back to February 2012 when several members had sung a punk prayer against Vladimir Putin in the Moscow Cathedral
Three of the five members of the group were sentenced in August 2012 to two years of camp including "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred". Ekaterina Samutsevich was finally released in October 2012, while Nadejda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina had served 22 months of their sentence.
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