One of the original members of the feminist protest group Pussy Riot said she “escaped” Russia to travel to the Edinburgh Fringe for his show.

Maria Alyokhina supports the Russian government prohibited her to leave the country, but that he defied the ban to make it to the capital of Scotland.

Alyokhina has shot to fame in 2012 after appearing in a Cathedral in Moscow performing an obscenity-laced prayer.

She was sentenced to two years in prison, but was released at the beginning.

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The performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour attacked the Orthodox Church’s support for President Vladimir Putin.

Alyokhina was freed in December 2013 under an amnesty, has dismissed as a propaganda stunt to improve the President Putin’s image ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

Since its release, the Pussy Riot movement has gained members, some of which disrupted the football World Cup final last month.
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Alyokhina says she has been prevented from leaving the country after a protest earlier this week in front of the headquarters of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) in Moscow.

The action was intended to protest against what the activists called the beating and torture of inmates by prison guards in Russia as a whole.

Following the ban, Alyokhina says that he has driven more than 1000 km (600 miles) through the territory of Belarus, where the security of the borders are not so close, and then in Lithuania, which is in the European Union, where she boarded a flight to the UNITED kingdom.

She was on a trip to Edinburgh for his show at Summerhall, which tells the story of his 2012 protest and its jail for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”.

Alyokhina, told BBC Scotland: “for us it is important to tell this story, because we believe that this story can be an example for you to make your own Pussy Riot.

“It took a while to get here, because two days ago, I knew that I am not allowed to leave the country.

“We have found a way to get here with a few adventures along the way.””This is a movement’

She said that she did not know what the penalties in front of her, and when she returned to Russia.

“Forbid me to leave the country and I did not follow their decision as well, after all the big media channels covered, which I did,” she said.

“Usually, after this great attention, something happens, I don’t know what.

“If you’re an activist or a political artist you can expect some problems, such as with a custodial sentence or penalties, or other unpredictable stuff.”

He said that the goal of Pussy Riot was to make the people stand up for the freedom of speech and the challenge of injustice.

“I believe that all the people that were standing in for us, and are still standing for us, we are all Pussy Riot,” he said.

“That’s why it’s bigger. That is why it is a movement now.”