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Paul McCartney shows support for Pussy Riot at live gig

17 June 2013, 17:03 | Written by Carris Boast
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At his headlining show last night at Bonnaroo, Sir Paul McCartney showed his support for Russian feminist collective Pussy Riot by flashing “Free Pussy Riot” behind him on the video screen as he performed ‘Back in the USSR’.

This isn’t the first time Paul McCartney has showed support for Pussy Riot. Last month he released an open letter to the Russian government with a plea to release members Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova from a two-year sentence in prison. The two women were found guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred or hostility” because they held a “punk protest” gig at Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral.

You can watch the fan-filmed footage of that Paul McCartney moment below.

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