The two members of the protest group Pussy Riot who were released shortly before the Sochi Olympic Games began were detained by police near Sochi on Tuesday for about four hours ahead of a scheduled anti-Putin protest, The Washington Post reported.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina said they were picked up in downtown Sochi and treated roughly before they were let go, according to The Post.
The two women tweeted from the police van they were taken to the jailhouse in and Tolokonnikova said they had planned to make a video later of that day of a song called "Putin Will Teach You How to Love Your Motherland," The Post reported.
According to Tolokonnikova the song is in support of the "Bolotnaya" prisoners who are on trial in Moscow for taking part in the same protest they did, according to The Post.
She said another figure in the song was Evgeny Vitishko, sentenced last week to three years in a labor camp for environmental activism in the Sochi region, The Post reported.
The two women were picked up with seven other journalists and activists in a part of the city well clear of the Olympics and taken to a police station in Sochi's Adler section, which is not far from the Olympic Park, according to The Post.
The two women said they were also detained on Saturday and Sunday, The Post reported. Tolokonnikova said police told them they were "wanted."
The two Pussy Riot members who were jailed for about two years were released from prison in December under an amnesty announced by President Vladimir Putin ahead of the Olympic games, mostly due to pressure, according to The Post.
The group had been convicted of singing a brief protest song criticizing Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church at the altar of Moscow's main cathedral, The Post reported. Since their release, they have been campaigning for prison reform and considering entering politics.
