Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina arrested for taking part in ‘Stop (!) Gulag’ protest in November

Moscow police officers have arrested Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, the activist and musician told MBK Media.

Alyokhina said that the reason for the arrest was a banner drop that took place November 8 on a bridge near the Kremlin. In the action, Pussy Riot members and members of the Dekommunizatsiya (Decommunization) project hung a banner from the bridge that read “Stop (!) Gulag” and featured the faces of criminal defendants who are considered modern-day political prisoners in Russia.

Dekommunizatsiya coordinator Dmitry Enteo (born Dmitry Tsorionov) was jailed for five days as a result of the same action on November 15; he was charged with repeatedly breaking public assembly laws, which require permits for any gathering of more than one person.