{"id":899,"date":"2020-12-03T09:13:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T09:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=131386"},"modified":"2020-12-03T09:13:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T09:13:35","slug":"member-of-pussy-riot-protest-group-detained-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/03\/member-of-pussy-riot-protest-group-detained-in-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Member Of Pussy Riot Protest Group Detained In Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/67344996-53d7-483d-9e7f-283d5ee99427_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>MOSCOW &#8212; A member of the Pussy Riot protest group has been detained for taking part in a protest performance in Moscow last week.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Alyokhina, a member of the protest group, said on December 3 that police detained Rita Flores, also known as Margarita Konovalova, after she was taken to a Moscow hospital overnight to be treated for an unspecified illness.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alyokhina, police charged Flores with repeatedly violating the law on public gatherings and remanded her in custody. Flores is expected to face trial later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>On November 28, Flores, Alyokhina and artist Farkhad Israfilli-Gelman staged a protest performance called Fragile! Handle With Care! not far from the State History Museum near Red Square.<\/p>\n<p>In the performance, two women in Russian national costumes tied Israfilli-Gelman, who was wearing riot-police uniform, to a light pole with packing tape.<\/p>\n<p>The event highlighted several cases against protesters who received prison terms last year for throwing plastic cups and plastic bottles at police during dispersal of rallies in the Russian capital.<\/p>\n<p>Police briefly detained Israfilli-Gelman on November 28 and Alyokhina on December 2. The two were charged with violating the law on public gatherings. Their trials are pending as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/03\/member-of-pussy-riot-protest-group-detained-in-moscow\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW \u2014 A member of the Pussy Riot protest group has been detained for taking part in a protest performance in Moscow last week. Maria Alyokhina, a member\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}