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Ono to bestow peace award on Pussy Riot
Added At: 2012-09-21 10:15 PM
Last Updated At: 2012-09-21 10:15 PM
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
NEW YORK: Yoko Ono, the artiste and widow of Beatles musician and songwriter John Lennon, will bestow a peace award in the couple’s name to Pussy Riot, the Russian punk rockers, in New York on September 21.
The biennial Lennon-Ono Grant for Peace will be given to Pyotr Verzilov, the husband of jailed Pussy Riot member Nadia Tolokonnikova, said the global rights group Amnesty
International.
The peace award is to be shared between the Russian band and four others, including Rachel Corrie, the American activist crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Rafah in 2003, and the late writer Christopher Hitchens.
The other recipients of the Lennon-Ono award for 2012 are John Perkins, the activist and author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and an as yet undisclosed fifth “equally important activist”.
All five winners are to be honoured at a ceremony in Reykjavik, Iceland on October 9, according to the award’s website.
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