Subject: Pussy Riot to appear at Amnesty International concert in Brooklyn Tue Jan 21, 2014 6:45 pm
Pussy Riot may no longer be a formal band, but the activists will still make a high-profile appearance at a Brooklyn music venue next month.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina will appear alongside the Flaming Lips, Imagine Dragons, Ms. Lauryn Hill and many others for Amnesty International's Bringing Human Rights Home event at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Feb. 5.
"We are happy to support Amnesty International's work on behalf of human rights and political prisoners," Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina said in a statement. "We, more than anyone, understand how important Amnesty's work is in connecting activists to prisoners.