Maria Alyokhina has spent her entire life defending human rights such as freedom of expression. She has escaped from her country disguised as a food delivery man.
Euskaraz irakurri: Pussy Rioteko buruak mozorrotuta ihes egin du Errusiatik
The leader of the Russian feminist collective Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, escaped from Russia with the help of his friends for the repression of the president, Vladimir Putin, as reported New York Times
For this, the artist has She disguised herself as a food delivery man to evade the Moscow police who were guarding a friend’s apartment where she was staying. She left her cell phone there to avoid being tracked, and a friend took her to the border with Belarus. It took a week to enter Lithuania.
In April, when the Russian president cracked down on any criticism of the war in Ukraine, authorities announced that Alyochina, who was under house arrest, would be serving a 21-day sentence in a penal colony. After this announcement, the activist decided she would leave the country.
Faced with this flight, the Russian Ministry of the Interior has included it in its list of wantedafter he passed the last sentences and did not appear to end up in jail.
Alyochina took part in the demonstrations in support of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni, which took place in early 2021 and were violently suppressed by Russian police. At the time, the activist had vowed to remain in Russia despite surveillance and pressure from authorities, but now she joins the tens of thousands of Russians who have fled since the invasion of Ukraine began.
Pussy Riot is a Moscow-based Russian feminist protest art collective that gives unauthorized guerrilla punk rock performances in unusual public places. The themes of the collective’s songs are feminism, LGBTI+ rights and opposition to Putin, whom the group sees as a dictator. In 2012, three members of the Pussy Riot, including Maria Alyokhina, were convicted of “vandalism motivated by religious hatred”, and each was sentenced to two years in prison.
alokina, 33, has spent his whole life defending human rightssuch as freedom of expression.
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