'She Tells Everyone That Putin Put Mother in a Cage'

At Tuesday's pretrial hearings for Pussy Riot, a Russian female punk band, the Russian government wasn't taking any chances. The courtyard was cordoned off, along with the street outside. And anyone holding a sign or chanting was thrown into a police bus.

The three band members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina, and Ekaterina Samutsevich, are being prosecuted for an unsanctioned "punk-prayer" called "Our Lady, chase Putin out." In January, they performed the so-called "prayer" for about half a minute in the Moscow Christ the Savior Cathedral before being booted by the church’s security guards.