Activists Pussy Riot want asylum in Sweden

Two activists from the Russian protest group Pussy Riot try to get asylum in Sweden.

The duo would have been threatened and abused in their homeland. That happened after a protest in Sochi in 2014. Dzjanjan also lost her job at the University of Krasnodar. 'We do not have to be afraid of this all the time', said Knedljakovski according to SVT about his stay in Sweden.

Pussy Riot regularly clashes with the authorities in Russia. In 2012 the group disrupted a service in the Christ-Savior Cathedral in Moscow with a 'punk prayer'. In that performance they criticized Vladimir Putin. Two members of the group, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Aljochina, were detained for almost two years because of the incident.