An amnesty deal has been agreed which will see Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina freed within days from the Berniki prison camp in which they are incarcerated.
The feminist Punk band members received two year sentences back in August 2012 after their “Punk Prayer” protest at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ The Saviour but are being set free as part of an amnesty agreed and backed by Vladimir Putin and the Russian Government to mark the 20th Anniversary of Russia’s post-soviet constitution.
The amnesty will see 500,000 prisoners freed including the ‘Arctic 30’ Greenpeace protesters who were jailed earlier this year.
