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Unfreedom of Speech - The Brooklyn Quarterly
On February 5th, two members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot—Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova—appeared as special guests at Amnesty International’s “Bring Human Rights Home” concert at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The concert and its associated media coverage drew attention to human rights abuses worldwide, though with the Sochi Olympics in the foreground, Russia’s human …