Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a Pussy Riot band member, has received amnesty documents on Monday, Yelena Pimonenko, a prosecutor's senior assistant, reported. She added that Tolokonnikova qualified for the amnesty not because she is a mother of a Minor but as a result of proven fact that hooliganism charges come under an amnesty bill.
At this time, Tolokonnikova remains at a medical facility, where she's been recently. At the end of February 2012, five masked women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow and carried out a so-called punk prayer. The footage of the performance went viral and sparked a public outcry.
Police arrested three "Pussy Riot" members – Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, who have been sentenced to couple of years in prison on hooliganism charges on August 17, 2012.
In May 2013, a Moscow court upheld the verdict passed earlier.
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