Sochi Winter Olympics: Two members of punk band Pussy Riot arrested before protest performance

By Nick Miller in Sochi
Updated February 19 2014 - 9:18pm, first published 2:12pm
Arrested in Sochi ... Maria Alyokhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot were taken into custody before they could play a protest song.
Arrested in Sochi ... Maria Alyokhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot were taken into custody before they could play a protest song.
Arrested in Sochi ... Maria Alyokhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot were taken into custody before they could play a protest song.
Arrested in Sochi ... Maria Alyokhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot were taken into custody before they could play a protest song.
Arrested in Sochi ... Maria Alyokhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot were taken into custody before they could play a protest song.
Arrested in Sochi ... Maria Alyokhina (left) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot were taken into custody before they could play a protest song.

Two members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been arrested in the town of Sochi, activists say.

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