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<span class="date-display-single">Sat, 18/08/2012</span> </div>
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<p>A Russian judge sentenced three members of Pussy Riot to two years each in prison on hooliganism charges on August 17.</p>
<p>The judge said the three band members, who have already been detained for five months, committed hooliganism driven by religious hatred and offending religious believers.</p>
<p>The women smiled sadly at the testimony of prosecution witnesses accusing them of sacrilege and “devilish dances” in church.</p>
<p>They remained calm after the judge announced the sentence and someone in the courtroom shouted: “Shame!”</p>
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