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Pussy Riot case: Russian court hears appeal in Moscow
A Russian court has begun hearing an appeal by three activists from punk band Pussy Riot.
In August, three members of the group were jailed for two years for staging an anti-Kremlin protest in Moscow's main cathedral, Christ the Saviour.
The Russian Orthodox Church said on Sunday that clemency should be possible for the trio as long as they repented what they called their "punk prayer".
But their lawyers have said that they doubt the appeal will be successful.
The three band members - Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30 - were found guilty of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in August.
Source and full story: BBC News, 01 Oct 2012
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