By Will Stewart PUBLISHED: 20:07 EST, 4 August 2012 | UPDATED: 07:11 EST, 5 August 2012 Terrified: The women, Nadia, Maria, and Katya, speaking from their cell. Caged behind the perspex panes of a cramped Moscow courtroom cell, the three young Russian women huddle together in dejected and fearful silence as a stern-faced woman prison warden, a 3ft wooden truncheon strapped to her waist, stands guard. Terrified, separated from their children and deprived of food, water and sleep for long stretches, the three members of Russian punks-against-Putin band Pussy Riot face seven years’ imprisonment if convicted of the trumped-up charge of hooliganism levelled against them for staging an impromptu protest against President Vladimir Putin in a Moscow cathedral, an act which outraged the Russian leader.
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Trio face seven years in jail after staging cathedral performance calling for Putin to be removed from power
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Denied food and water for 12 hours while cooped up in their perspex cage
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Rarely given more than four hours sleep a night
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Only daylight is on their drive to 'Putin show trial'
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