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Four members of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot were sentenced to 15 days in prison on Monday after briefly introducing themselves in the field during the final of the World Cup football, dressed in police uniforms, Sunday in Moscow.
A Moscow court sentenced Veronika Nikulina, Olga Pakhtusova, Piotr Verzilov and Olga Kuracheva to 15 days in prison and banned them from to attend sports events for three years, reported the site MediaZona, specializing in justice.
They were convicted of having "
Seriously Violated the Rules of Spectator Behavior
"
Piotr Verzilov is the founder of the MediaZona website, which reports on the trials of human rights defenders.
The four people briefly entered the lawn on Sunday. Moscow, before being intercepted by the stewards, in the 53rd minute of the final France-Croatia 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 had affirmed, on its pages on Twitter and Facebook, that its members were at the origin of the intrusion, also distributing a list of six petitions.
"
Free all political prisoners
Was their first request.
The others mentioned the end of the arrests during the peaceful demonstrations and "
Authorization of political competition in the country
The best-known action of the Pussy Riot dates back to February 2012 when several members had sung a punk prayer against Mr. Putin in Moscow Cathedral.
Three of the five members of the group had been sentenced in August 2012 to two years of camp especially for "
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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