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Pussy Riot members 'attacked by Cossacks with whips at Winter Olympics'

Six Pussy Riot members are reportedly whipped in an attack by Cossacks during a performance beneath a sign advertising the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Six members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot were reportedly attacked by Cossacks while performing beneath a sign advertising the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi.

Two members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina were released this week following an arrest for alleged theft.

However, controversy has intensified after Cossacks reportedly whipped five females and one male member, all of whom were wearing masks, during a performance.

"They hit me all across my body, look at my bruises," the Daily Star quotes Tolokonnikova as saying.

Reports have claimed that their masks were ripped off and a guitar was thrown into a rubbish bin.

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A members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, speaks by her cell phone, as she is escorted to a police car after being detained in the Adler district of Sochi, on February 18, 2014
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