Mr. Vladimir Putin
23, Ilyinka St.
Moscow, 103132, Russia
Mr. Dmitry Medvedev
2, Krasnopresnenskaya nab.
Moscow, 103132, Russia
Hamovnichesky Court
Rostovsky per., 21
Moscow, 119121, Russia
We demand freedom for Pussy Riot. The political pressure and the court which condemned these outstandingly ethical artists is evil. Your verdict is a violation of human rights and of free speech.
Pussy Riot express their anger at the discrimination of women and gays in your country; they sang of a "Gay-pride sent to Siberia in chains." Repressions against artists, in particular women artists, in Russia have been taking place for years. We remember the unjust trial of the Russian artist Anna Alchuk who was found dead in 2008.
Pussy Riot continue - and act out - the thought of Dostoevsky, Berdyaev and Vvedensky; the artists also referred to them during the closing statements of the trial. As Suzanne Moore wrote in the Guardian, they develop the ideas of other world thinkers too, such as Russian-born Emma Goldmann, Beauvoir, Butler and Braidotti.
The art of Pussy Riot is important aethetically and morally. The young artists whom you crush are a new dissidence who struggle for liberty.
Dr Pawel Leszkowicz, Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence and Cultural Change, University of Sussex, Sussex House, Brighton, BN1 9RH, United Kingdom
Dr Tomasz Kitlinski, Wydzial Filozofii i Socjologii, Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej, pl. Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej 4, 20-468 Lublin, Poland
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