The lives of the young son and parents of a suspected member of the Pussy Riot punk group have been threatened, a lawyer for one of the alleged participants in the band’s recent anti-Putin protest said on Wednesday.
“The parents and son of Maria Alyokhina have received death threats both by telephone and online,” lawyer Violetta Volkova told RIA Novosti. “The women themselves have also been threatened.”
Her comments come shortly after Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill said “the devil” had mocked believers during the band’s February 21 “punk prayer” at the altar of downtown Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral and hit out at calls for leniency.
“The police have been informed, but they are not interested in defending the accused,” Volkova added. “As we understand, the threats were made by rabid fanatics far removed from Orthodox Christianity.”

RIA Novosti
Marc Bennetts,
March 28, 2012

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