RUSSIA/FILE: Russian upholds ban on Pussy Riot videos

Record ID: 261397

  • Title: RUSSIA/FILE: Russian upholds ban on Pussy Riot videos
  • Date: 30th January 2013
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JANUARY 30, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS EXTERIOR OF MOSCOW CITY COURT RUSSIAN JUDGES ENTERING COURT ROOM SECURITY GUARDS NEAR DOOR VARIOUS OF FREED PUSSY RIOT MEMBER YEKATERINA SAMUTSEVICH WITH LAWYER DAMIR GAINUTDINOV GAINUTDINOV WITH SAMUTSEVICH CAMERAMEN FILMING SAMUTSEVICH ENTERING COURT ROOM GUARD IN COURT ROOM SAMUTSEVICH AND GAINUTDINOV IN COURT ROOM JU
  • Embargoed: 14th February 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Russian Federation
  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Crime,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA2OD1Q7UXMHL6Z2N82JX2D292F
  • Story Text: A Moscow court on Wednesday (January 30) refused to consider an appeal from Pussy Riot group member Yekaterina Samutsevich to a decision deeming four videos by the punk protest band as extremist.
    The decision means that a November 2012 verdict marking the anti-Putin group's videos as extremist has come into force today.
    The videos in question included a clip of their action called "Virgin Mary, throw Putin out!" performed last February in Russia's largest Orthodox church, Christ the Saviour Cathedral, for which three Pussy Riot members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich were jailed for two years in August after having been convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.
    Samutsevich was later freed on appeal after her sentence was suspended.
    On Wednesday a Russian judge read out the decision in a Moscow city court room.
    "Samutsevich's appeal to the decision from Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky court from November 29, 2012 will not be considered," Moscow City Court judge Ludmila Sumina said.
    Samutsevich, in attendance at the court session on Wednesday said she planned to lodge another appeal to the decision.
    "Well, of course I think of this negatively. I think that it's illegal - that's obvious. The points that we discussed here are more than obvious and convincing. The judge just ignored them, ignored all the rights that we have. So we will submit a supervisory appeal," Samutsevich told reporters outside the court room.
    Other videos considered extremist depict Pussy Riot's action on Red Square, called "Putin's pissed himself", as well as their less-publicised actions on the detention centre roof and on top of a trolley-bus.
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