In Doha, Qatar, at Lusail Stadium, three members of Pussy Riot were detained during the World Cup final, including Peter Verzilovand Nick Nikulshin. This is reported by Spiegel and Deutsche Presse-Agentur with reference to the Cinema for Peace Foundation.
According to the fund, they were going to run out onto the field during the game between France and Argentina in protest against the Russian war in Ukraine, the imprisonment of opposition leader Alexei Nvalny and the violation of women's rights in Iran.
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They were taken from the podium next to the bench of the Argentine national team. This was not included in the broadcast of the match, Welt notes.
They were released that evening, Verzilov told Mediazone.
On November 29, members of Pussy Riot already came to the stands during the game of the Iranian team with the United States in T-shirts with the inscription Woman Life Freedom and the names of women killed by the authorities from Iran.
Verzilov and Nikulshina were also among the members of Pussy Riot who ran onto the field during the final match of the World Cup in 2018 as part of the action against political persecution in Russia “Policeman enters the game”. Their then arrested for 15 days and was fined 1.5 thousand rubles.
«The policeman enters the game»