VLADIMIR LUKIN
ON PUSSY RIOT
VLADIMIR LUKIN
Владимир Петрович Лукин
in the Yeltsin era
(a 2011 photograph, here)
Today Vladimir Petrovich Lukin, the Human Rights Commissioner of Russia, called "excessive" the prison sentences meted out to the three members of the punk band Pussy Riot who used the main Orthodox Cathedral in Moscow as the setting for their anti-Putin performance. He asserted, according to Reuters, that as human rights ombudsman "he had the right to challenge the verdict once it entered into force if he believed human rights had been violated."
Lukin is waiting for the appeals process to take its course (it is expected to begin next week), and then he will "analyse this thoroughly."
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