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Anonymous responds to Pussy Riot verdict

posted onAugust 24, 2012
by l33tdawg

Days after the members of the Russian band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a grueling penal colony, hackers attacked the website of the court that sentenced them.

AnonymousRussia, an off-shoot of the worldwide “hacktivist” group Anonymous, claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack. “We are American group Anonymous. We don't forget and we don't forgive,” read the post, written in Russian.

This attack is the latest in a long series of protests against Russian President Vladimir Putin, a man activists contend is leading the country down a dangerous, autocratic path. The three female members of Pussy Riot were convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.” In February, the band interrupted a service at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the main Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow. Dressed in masks and singing a crude ditty begging the Virgin Mary to deliver Russia from Putin, Pussy Riot’s protest made international waves.

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