Cartoon Slideshow: Pussy Riot Sentenced

By ⋅ August 17, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment
Cartoon: Tjeerd Royaards, Netherlands

Cartoon: Tjeerd Royaards, Netherlands

You’ll see ski masks, tights and short skirts in these cartoons about the case of Pussy Riot, the Russian punk band who took to the altar of Moscow’s main cathedral in February… in ski masks, tights and short skirts … to belt out a song against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On August 16th the three women in the band were sentenced to two years in jail.

They listened to their sentencing from the vantage point of a glass cage set up in the courtroom.

The verdict described their protest act as “sacrilegious” and “blasphemous”.

Supporters of Pussy Riot say their stiff sentence is just another example of what the band was protesting about in the first place.


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One comment for “Cartoon Slideshow: Pussy Riot Sentenced”

  • http://hollotech.com/ Batrakov Dmitrr

    I live in Russia. My opinion, and the majority of citizens, they got what they deserved. They insulted the feelings of believers, our Senses. Politics has nothing to do with it. Shall burn in hell!!!!!