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Former Beatle Paul McCartney joined a list of people calling for the release of a member of the Russian band, Pussy Riot. McCartney wrote on his website that Maria Alyokhina's punishment should end. Two members of the band are still in prison.

Regional Russian prosecutors claimed on Wednesday that the prison camp, where Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina is currently serving her two-year sentence, broke the law by keeping her in isolation for an excessive period of time.

One of the jailed members of the Pussy Riot punk band, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, has been transferred from a women’s prison colony, where she is serving a two-year sentence, to a prison hospital, after complaining of suffering from severe headaches.

Blagoveshchensk - The defendant was not amused. Not only was he sentenced to five years in jail but the judge had to wake up from a nap to give it to him. Luckily, it's the 21st century. The snooze was filmed and went viral. Judicial authorities were not amused either.

After Pussy Riot, the all-female punk band, became a household name for their controversial act in Russia's main cathedral, a documentary was made, which has now won an award.

Each year the Guardian's editors and readers nominate and vote for the person they consider to be most important and a headline-maker for the year. This year the winners were Bradley Manning, followed by Malala Yousafzai.

On Thursday, a Moscow court banned the video of punk band Pussy Riot’s performance in Moscow’s main Orthodox Cathedral for its extremism and ordered it and three other videos released by the band to be removed from all websites.

Moscow - The two convicted women from Pussy Riot have been sent to two prison camps east of Moscow. The camps are hundreds of miles away from their family and supporters.

As international accolades pour in for Russian punk band Pussy Riot, a Moscow court has released one of the three jailed activists, on probation.

Moscow - The Russian Orthodox Church asked Sunday for clemency for the three jailed members of punk band Pussy Riot if they repent for their anti-Putin "punk prayer."