The world is still reeling from Friday’s Pussy Riot verdict, but Russia’s police force is
turning up the heat on the collective. A spokesperson confirmed that police are now
on the hunt for the remaining members of Pussy Riot, report Reuters.
The suspects have not yet been identified and police have not confirmed how many
women they are searching for. However, Pussy Riot lawyer Mark Feigen believes that
police know the identity of the other two members as they have video surveillance
footage of them walking into the church. He suggests that police have deliberately not
revealed the suspects’ identities in order to quash further dissidence. He told Reuters,
"If you put some unidentified persons on the wanted list, then you can arrest whoever
you want in a balaclava."
Following their performance of a "punk prayer" in Moscow’s Christ The Saviour
Cathedral, three members of the group (pictured) – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30 – were each convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, and each received a two year jail sentence.
Fear of retribution has not yet deterred the other members of Pussy Riot from
continuing to protest. A new song, ‘Putin is Lighting the Fires of Revolution’ was
released on Friday by the collective.
Support for Pussy Riot has been flooding in from across the globe. Madonna
performed recently with the band’s name scrawled across her back, and Stephen
Fry wrote a letter denouncing Russia for its “monstrous injustice and preposterous tyranny”.
