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A Police officer escorts a member of female punk band "Pussy Riot" Maria Alyokhina (2nd R) before a court hearing in Moscow on July 23, 2012. Three members of the all-woman punk band "Pussy Riot" Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich were detained, after they climbed on the altar of Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral on February 21, 2012 -- the country's central place of worship -- and sang a song they called a "Punk Prayer". The women have been charged with hooliganism committed by an organised group -- an unusually harsh charge for protesters. AFP PHOTO / ADNREY SMIRNOV (Photo credit should read ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/GettyImages)

A Police officer escorts a member of female punk band "Pussy Riot" Maria Alyokhina (2nd R) before a court hearing in Moscow on July 23, 2012. Three members of the all-woman punk band "Pussy Riot" Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich were detained, after they climbed on the altar of Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral on February 21, 2012 -- the country's central place of worship -- and sang a song they called a "Punk Prayer". The women have been charged with hooliganism committed by an organised group -- an unusually harsh charge for protesters. AFP PHOTO / ADNREY SMIRNOV (Photo credit should read ANDREY SMIRNOV/AFP/GettyImages)
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