A Moscow court has sentenced five members of Pussy Riot, the activist punk collective, to prison sentences ranging from 8 to 13 years, on charges of spreading “fakes” about the Russian military via their videos and performances, the Russian state-owned news agency Tass reported on Monday (15 September). According to Tass, Alekhina and Pletner were sentenced to 13 and 11 years, respectively, in a penal colony, while the three other defendants got eight years each. Pussy Riot members have fled Russia by various means—Alekhina escaped in 2022 with the help of Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson. Tolokonnikova was arrested in absentia in 2023 and subsequently added to Russia’s international wanted list, and Pyotr Verzilov, another founding member of Pussy Riot, was added to the government’s list of terrorists after joining the Ukrainian military. Earlier reports by Russian-language human rights and opposition media have documented searches conducted against the relatives still in Russia of Pussy Riot members who have been forced to flee the country.