Moscow, Russia (Weltexpress). A Moscow district court has sentenced five members of the notorious girl band Pussy Riot in absentia to prison terms of between eight and 13 years for spreading false information about the Russian armed forces, a TASS correspondent reported from the courtroom.
‘The court found Maria Alyokhina, Diana Burkot, Olga Borisova, Alina Petrova and Taso Pletner guilty [of knowingly spreading false information about the deployment of the Russian armed forces] and imposed individual sentences on them,’ the judge said. Specifically, Alyokhina and Pletner were sentenced to 13 and 11 years respectively in a general penal colony, and the other three defendants were sentenced to eight years behind bars, she specified.
The Pussy Riot members denied their guilt. During the plea, Diana Burkot’s father testified as a witness that he rejected his daughter’s political views, according to the prosecutor.
According to investigators, in December 2022, Alyokhina, Borisova, Burkot and Pletner posted a music video on the internet with a commentary that deliberately contained false information about the deployment of Russian armed forces. In April 2024, Alyokhina, Pletner and Petrova took part in a rally in Munich against the alleged destruction of civilian infrastructure in Mariupol by the Russian military.
