About 400 people joined electrofunky-pop performance artist Peaches in a Berlin park to show support for the members of a punk rock band called Pussy Riot on trial in Russia for performing a "punk prayer" against President Vladimir Putin in a Russian church.
The three Pussy Riot band members are awaiting a verdict next week (August 17, 2012) in their Moscow trial on charges of hooliganism motivated religious hatred for the February 2012 performance.
The trial has been seen as part of the widening government crackdown on dissent in Russia and has been widely criticized.
Peaches, who lives in Berlin said that the crowd showed up in Berlin's Mauerpark Wednesday August 9, 2012 after she spread the word over social media networks that she needed people for a video for her newly penned song Free Pussy Riot.
"I wanted to do something for them," she said. "With this video I can act as a bridge between the women and the people here." MORE HERE & HERE
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