You Should Read the Pussy Riot Defendants’ Powerful Closing Statements [Pussy Riot]

The Pussy Riot trial — in which three members of a Russian punk collective were charged with “hooliganism” and held in jail for months over a guerrilla performance Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral (you can read more about it here) — ended yesterday with two of the defendants, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (on the right and the left, respectively, in the above photo), giving closing statements. You should read them. More »