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Band Gets 2 Years in Prison for 'Hooliganism' Found guilty of hooliganism on Friday, members of the Russian punk band 'Pussy Riot' are now facing 2 year prison sentences each for their guerilla perfomance at a Russian Orthodox Church. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alekhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, stood in handcuffs in a glass cage in the courtroom for three hours as the judge read the verdict. They smiled sadly as the judge recounted testimony of prosecution witnesses accusing them of sacrilege and "devilish dances" in church and said that their feminist views made them hate the Orthodox religion.

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