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Pussy Riot House Arrest Likely to be Extended, Case Hearing This Week
Naman Ramachandran The house arrest of two members of Russian feminist protest group Pussy Riot, Maria Alekhina and Lucy Shtein, is likely to be extended by a few months, with their case coming up for hearing Thursday and Friday.The pair are accused of calling for a rally in support of political prisoners through posts on Instagram and Twitter in January, and have been under house arrest ever since with no access to the internet.A post shared by Masha Alekhina (@all_mary)Since then, celebrities including Pedro Almodovar, Agnieszka Holland, Stephen Daldry, Gillian Anderson, Spike Jonze, Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Harris, Pawel Pawlikowski, James Norton, Roger Waters, Peter Gabriel and the European Film Academy, have signed a letter of solidarity
