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Pussy Riot Appeal Hearing Delayed Until Next Week

Lauren Foliart |
October 2, 2012 | 8:46 a.m. PDT

Executive Producer

 

A supporter for the band Pussy Riot (Photo by Jorge Artajo via Flickr/Creative Commons)
A supporter for the band Pussy Riot (Photo by Jorge Artajo via Flickr/Creative Commons)
An appeal hearing for members of Pussy Riot, the punk-rock band sentenced to two years in prison for performing a song critical of President Vladimir Putin, was adjourned yesterday until Oct. 10.

According to CNN, band member Yekaterina Samutsevich said Monday she refuses to work with an attorney who lacks the same views as her in the case

The three women were convicted in August for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred," after they staged a protest in the form of a "punk prayer" inside Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow.

ALSO SEE: Pussy Riot Band Sentenced To Prison

An act against both the Russian President and Orthodox Church, the band sang "Mother Mary please drive Putin away," inside Moscow's main cathedral while wearing neon colored ski masks.  The women defend themselves by saying their prayer was politically motivated rather than being a direct insult to the Orthodox Church.

On Sunday, the Russian Orthodox Church offered clemency to the band if they repented the so-called "punk prayer" performed in the Moscow Cathedral.

ALSO SEE: Pussy Riot Band Forgiven By Russian Orthodox Church

The three women - Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Samutsevich, 30 - have garnered attention around the world with their story.  On Monday, Yoko Ono, with the support Amnesty International, awarded the three women with the LennonOno Grant for Peace.

The New York band Men released a video for the song "Let Them Out Or Let Me In," to show their support for Pussy Riot.  The video edits together iconic images of the band and their protest.

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