Jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina is seen in a cell at a courtroom in Berezniki, about 1,500 km (940 miles) northeast of Moscow on Jan. 16, 2013. A Russian court on Wednesday turned down her attempt to defer serving her sentence until her preschool son becomes a teenager. Alekhina was convicted last year along with two other band members of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia's main cathedral. (Associated Press)
Jailed feminist punk band Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina is seen in a cell at a courtroom in Berezniki, about 1,500 km (940 miles) northeast of Moscow on Jan. 16, 2013. A Russian court on Wednesday turned down her attempt to defer serving her sentence until her preschool son becomes a teenager. Alekhina was convicted last year along with two other band members of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for an anti-President Vladimir Putin stunt in Russia's main cathedral. (Associated Press)
Members of the Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot — (from left) Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova — sit in a glass cage in a courtroom in Moscow on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
Members of the Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot — (from left) Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova — sit in a glass cage in a courtroom in Moscow on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
Feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in in Moscow, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. Lawyers Violetta Volkova, right, and Lev Lyalin, foreground center, defending members of feminist punk group Pussy Riot, sit in front. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
Feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Maria Alekhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in in Moscow, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012. Lawyers Violetta Volkova, right, and Lev Lyalin, foreground center, defending members of feminist punk group Pussy Riot, sit in front. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
**FILE** Feminist punk group Pussy Riot members (from left) Yekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit Aug. 17, 2012, in a glass cage at a courtroom in Moscow. The women, two of whom have young children, are charged with hooliganism connected to religious hatred but the case is widely seen as a warning that authorities will only tolerate opposition under tightly controlled conditions. The t-shirt worn by Tolokonnikova says, in Spanish, "They shall not pass," a slogan often used to express determination to defend a position against an enemy. (Associated Press)
A masked spectator reacts Sept. 9, 2012, during a concert in St. Petersburg, Russia, organized to support jailed Pussy Riot musicians. A Moscow judge has sentenced each of three members of the provocative punk band to two years in prison on hooliganism charges following a trial that has drawn international outrage as an emblem of Russia's intolerance to dissent. (Associated Press)
A policeman tries to detain a masked supporter of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot inside the Turkish embassy near the court in Moscow on Aug. 17, 2012. A Moscow judge sentenced each of three members of the band to two years in prison on hooliganism charges following a trial that has drawn international outrage as an emblem of Russia's intolerance to dissent. (Associated Press)
