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Author: Robyn Curnow

21 Sep

A Common Prayer: Religious Sensibilities and the Sentencing of Pussy Riot

[Robyn Curnow is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland. She works as a lawyer in Melbourne.] Reactions to the prosecution and sentencing of three members of Pussy Riot in August this year have revealed sharp disparities in the ways different countries’ legal systems protect peoples’ religious sensibilities. What they have also exposed is a spectrum...

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