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Pussy Riot member’s plea to defer prison term rejected

Pussy Riot member’s plea to defer prison term rejected

A Russian court on Wednesday rejected Pussy Riot band member Maria Alyokhina’s plea to defer her prison sentence until after her 5-year-old son reaches adolescence, despite fears the child will be irrevocably harmed by her absence.

By News Wires (text)
 

A Russian court has turned down the attempt by an imprisoned member of the Pussy Riot feminist punk band to defer serving her sentence until her pre-school son becomes a teenager.

Maria Alekhina on Wednesday asked the court to let her serve the rest of her two-year sentence after her 5-year-old son turns 14, arguing that separation from her child now will do irreparable psychological damage.

She was convicted last year along with two other band members of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia’s main cathedral. One of the women had her sentence suspended on appeal.

Judge Galina Yefremova rejected the petition, saying the court that sentenced Alekhina had already taken the child’s existence into account.
 

(AP)

Date created : 16/01/2013 
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"The lady should have thought

by bloke - 18/01/2013 - 11:44

"The lady should have thought of her son before she took part in the punk band"

Maybe she did, that's why she stood against Putin. It's always risky to speak against the leader in a dictatorship but that's the only way to change.

Usual anti-Russian and

by khagaraj - 16/01/2013 - 22:55

Usual anti-Russian and anti-Putin propaganda.No court even in the U.S will accept this kind of plea.The lady should have thought of her son before she took part in the punk band.

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