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A supporter of the Russian female punk band "Pussy Riot" sports a mask during a protest outside the Russian consulate in Toronto on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012 Michelle Siu/The Canadian Press/Press Association Images

Hackers target website of Russian court that sentenced Pussy Riot

Hackers associating themselves with the loose-knit ‘hacktivist’ group Anonymous posted anti-Putin messages and demanded the band members’ release.

THE WEBSITE OF the Russian court that sentenced three members of the band Pussy Riot to jail has been attacked by hackers posting anti-Putin messages.

The Khamovnichesky District Court’s website was targeted by a group associating themselves with the international “hacktivist” movement Anonymous, reports the BBC.

In a message posted on the website, the hackers said the following in Russian:

We are American group Anonymous. We don’t forget and we don’t forgive. Justice system has to be transparent. Pussy [Riot's members] are alive.

The names of tabs on the website were replaced with titles like ‘Free Pussy Riot’ and ‘Only an Open Trial Can BeFair’, reports the Wall Street Jourla.

A spokesman for the court said the attack was noticed early this morning and the website was subsequently taken offline for a short while.

The hackers also uploaded a new song released by Pussy Riot, called Putin Lights Up the Fires, as well as a video called “Hate” by gay Bulgarian singer Aziz.

Three members of Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were jailed for two years last Friday after being found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.

Jude Marina Syrova said that the women had grossly violated public order and “deeply insulted the faith of the believers with their disrespectful criminal act” when they took over a church pulpit in Moscow’s Christ the Savior cathedral to stage an anti-Putin protest.

During the demonstration, which lasted under a minute, the group performed a song and appealed to the Virgin Mary to “drive Putin away”.

The women’s sentencing has been roundly criticised by the international community.

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    Dec 10th 2020, 1:14 AM

    That a 500 year leasehold was signed with a private developer in 1997, says a lot about the sad state of public planning in the city.

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    Dec 10th 2020, 12:21 AM

    That’s a good news story to go to bed with. Good on Lord iveagh

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    Dec 10th 2020, 12:38 AM

    @Niamh Hand: where was he the last 20 years?

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    Dec 10th 2020, 1:11 AM

    @steve white: 20 years ago a still recent lease agreement was in effect, so he was as powerless to intervene as the rest of us.

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    Dec 10th 2020, 5:09 AM

    @steve white: dope

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    Dec 10th 2020, 9:47 AM

    @steve white: drinking pints I’d assume

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    Dec 10th 2020, 12:25 AM

    Hands up if you agree that Alan Kelly is an eejit

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    Dec 10th 2020, 1:25 AM

    @the-baldie-lad: utd fan out in the open was it Leo on the luas

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    Dec 10th 2020, 12:22 AM

    Excellent news.

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    Dec 10th 2020, 10:36 AM

    Be nice to have something along the lines of the English market in Cork

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    Dec 10th 2020, 7:49 AM

    Hopefully, he won’t grant another lease to DCC so they can balls it up again!

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    Dec 10th 2020, 11:00 AM

    My dad had a butchers shop there for years.

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    Dec 10th 2020, 11:38 AM

    A market like the ones in Barcelona would be the job there..

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    Dec 10th 2020, 8:36 AM

    Should be sequestered by the state along with all lands and properties that were divided amongst the lords of the English elite!

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    Dec 10th 2020, 9:15 AM

    @D Cullen: That’d be great if the state were capable of managing the lands and properties. Read the article and you will understand that the State is not up to the job.

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    Dec 10th 2020, 9:20 AM

    @D Cullen: so the state can then sell it on the ruthless developers and give themselves pay raises??
    No thank, at least Lord Iveagh will do something that benefits the people of Dublin, like he has done many times in the past.

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    Dec 10th 2020, 9:46 AM

    @D Cullen: except the Guinness’s are Anglo-Irish not English, just like many of Ireland’s rebel leaders of the past, Pearse / Wolfe Tone etc. The first Lord Iveagh was born is Dublin and is known for providing housing for the poor etc.

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    Dec 10th 2020, 11:06 AM

    His Christian/First name is very odd, don’t you think – ‘Lord’ ??

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