Activists Pussy Riot want asylum in Sweden

Activists Pussy Riot want asylum in Sweden

World January 24, 2018 11:45

stockholm - Two activists from the Russian protest group Pussy Riot try to get asylum in Sweden. Lusine Dzjanjan, Aleksej Knedljakovski and their son have been in the country for about ten months, report television channel SVT. The duo is currently living in an asylum seekers' center.

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.

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