IOC asks to the Pussy Riot abstain from protest in Sochi

Through a press conference the spokesman of the (IOC) International Olympic Committee, Mark Adams, asked today to the members of the Russian group Pussy Riot that do not perform political protests on stages of the Sochi Games.

One day after two activists of the band, critics of the Kremlin, were detained in Sochi, Adams said: “A manifestation would be inappropriate.”

Following their arrest, members of Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyojina, were interrogated joint with the defender of human rights Semyon Simonov and various journalists.

Tolokonnikova and Alyojina were placed later on released without charges; due to the interrogation was supposedly related to a robbery at their hotel. “It happened in Sochi, but was not related to a protest against the Games,” said Adams.