MOSCOW, November 30 (RIA Novosti) – Yekaterina Samutsevich, a member of the female punk group Pussy Riot, has appealed a court ruling that the group’s videos are extremist and the decision to ban access to them, the RAPSI news service reported Friday.
“Though Samutsevich is not involved in the litigation, she submitted a cassation appeal against the November 29 court ruling,” said Yevgenia Pazukhina, a spokeswoman for Moscow’s Zamoskvoretsky Court.
The judge earlier refused to grant Samutsevich’s request to consider her an interested party in the extremism case.
The court ruled on Thursday that four Pussy Riot videos, including the “punk prayer” in Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, were extremist on Thursday.
Three Pussy Riot members were jailed shortly after the incident in February 2012 and sentenced last August to two years in prison for hooliganism for their performance in Moscow’s main cathedral. Their trial made international headlines and sparked criticism of the Putin administration from civil rights activists and support from outraged social conservatives.
Samutsevich was released in October with a suspended sentence after a court ruled that she had not technically participated in the action.