Street-art collective Voina, staging a support protest for punk band Pussy Riot on International
Women's Day, weasled around Russia's laws by having just one woman hold up a placard. When others followed suit, police detained as many as 10 women.MOSCOW — Russian police detained several activists protesting Friday against the incarceration of the punk rockers Pussy Riot in a demonstration timed to take place on International Women's Day.
The street-art collective Voina, which means War, said on its blog that around 10 people were taken away by the riot police at a small demonstration in support of Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 23, the jailed band members.
Moscow police told Reuters that people had been detained, but declined to say how many. A Reuters Television cameraman saw four people led away to police cars.
The protest was designed as a one-person demonstration for which no permit is required. Activists took turns in front of the Federal Penitentiary Service building holding posters demanding freedom for Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova.
All the band members, including the since freed Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30, belonged to Voina.
Russian media reported that the arrests were made when other people started holding up posters
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