Moscow (CNN) -- Three members of Russian female punk rock band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison Friday after they were found guilty of hooliganism for performing a song critical of President Vladimir Putin in a church.
The five months they have spent in detention since their arrests in March count toward the sentence, Judge Marina Sirovaya said.
The judge said the
charges against the three women -- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria
Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich -- had been proved by witnesses and
the facts.
The Pussy Riot members
were charged after screaming, "Mother Mary, please drive Putin away," in
a protest act in February inside Christ Savior Cathedral, one of
Moscow's grandest houses of worship.
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