Poland's former leader Lech Walesa has asked Russian President Vladmir Putin to pardon the jailed members of Pussy Riot. The 1983 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who is also a fervent Catholic, slammed the group for abusing a church for political purposes and distanced himself from "the forms of expression used by the group." But he insisted that it was impossible to "subject to maltreatment and isolation people who fight with words and who promote their views publicly, even though they do so in such an iconoclastic manner."
Image: Pussy Riot performing in Moscow's Red Square
