Russian top clerics forgive Pu$$y Riot, ask for mercy
Sergey Ponomarev / AP file
Feminist punk group ***** Riot members, from left, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012.
Russian Orthodox Church clerics have asked the countryโs authorities to "show mercy" on the three members of the punk band ***** Riot, who were sentenced to two years in jail each on Friday in a trial seen as a test of President Vladimir Putin's tolerance of dissent.
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