Moscow court extends Pussy Riot detention to January

MOSCOW - Agence France-Presse

Members of punk-group Pussy Riot (L-R): Yekaterina Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Aliokhina look from a defendant's cage as they attend a preliminary trial session at Khamovnichesky district court in Moscow, Russia, 20 July 2012. EPA photo

A Moscow court ordered Friday that three young female members of the Pussy Riot punk group on trial for staging an anti-Vladimir Putin concert in Moscow's best known church should stay in jail until January.
 
The Khamovnichesky court ruled that the pre-trial detention of the trio -- who have been under arrest since March -- should be extended for another six months, satisfying a prosecution request, an AFP correspondent reported.