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Presidential human rights council: Pussy Riot sentence raises some questions

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Aug. 24, 2012, 12:48 p.m. | Russia and former Soviet Union — by Interfax-Ukraine

The Russian presidential human rights council said the punishment given to the members of the punk group Pussy Riot is too harsh.
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Moscow - The Russian presidential human rights council said the punishment given to the members of the punk group Pussy Riot is too harsh. 

"This criminal case also raises other questions about the observance of the principles of fair justice in a democratic law-governed state," members of the presidential human rights council said in a statement released in Moscow on Friday.

"For example, why did the defendants have to listen to the sentence being read in handcuffs for several hours? Why were all of the defendants given the same prison term, although two of them have young children? Why did the defendants not get a suspended prison sentence or at least a deferral until their children become reach full age?" the document says.

"Why is the punishment much tougher than punishment for blasphemy according to the laws of the Russian Empire? And why do we have to wait for the European Court of Human Rights to answer all these questions? Especially bearing in mind that we know the answers very well," the statement says.

"We are convinced that civil society has a right to insist on the supremacy of the truth and mercy in the Russian criminal justice system," the statement says. 

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Jenn Smith Aug. 29, 2012, 2:02 a.m.    

Pussy Rot are fascist-marxist GENOCIDE supporters.

Pussy Rot is anti-humanitarian. They attacked a persecuded people's sacred house of worship. A people, Christians, were murdered in genocide, 60 million of them under Marxist USSR, then this gang of media terrorists, funded no doubt by foreign agency NGO's, desecrates the sacred building of a people who have suffered genocide.

Pussy Rot songs are about the glory of Bolshevik mass murder.

Christians were persecuted by Marxist USSR and suffered GENOCIDE.

GULAG PART 3v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G04gEjB-bZs

GULAG PART 4v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hA9drjCX6U

Instead of Church of Christ the Saviour, what if they poured urine on the buildings at Auschwitz, then laughed about it?

Would it have been "humanitarian" if they desecrated Auschwitz?

What if they dumped urine and feces on the buildings of Dachau? Would they then be defended by ECHR for their "human rights"? Since when is desecrating the building of a people who suffered genocide a moral act?

GULAG PART 8v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqfV0XCySZU

GULAG PART 6v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Z1peXoAsA

GULAG PART 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjdn_CuGNjs

GULAG PART 1v
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITvDn5-qF0

Attacking a monument of genocide (Church of Christ the Saviour) is not a humane act, the Christians were genocided in the USSR. What if they sang Nazi songs at Auschwitz?

65 million Russian (and Ukrainian, Belorussian, Lithuanian) Christians were genocided by the Bolshevik Marxists that Pussy Rot glorifies. Pussy Rot should be hunted down by InterPol, arrested and sentenced to 10 years for HATE CRIMES.

What they did, sing song glorifying the genocide of the HOLODOMOR is illegal in Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Lithuania.

Once arrested by InterPol they should be extradited to Ukraine to face 10 years in prison for their Crimes Against Humanity.

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