Police say there is ` ` no claim '' against detained band members . Since their release , just before the Olympic Games began , they have spoken to journalists about their time behind bars , describing the conditions as squalid and their treatment by guards as demeaning and inhumane . Maria Alyokhina and Anna Tolokonnikova were meeting musicians . Police detained them , three other band members , musicians and journalists . They were in Moscow to record an anti - Putin political protest song .
Police say there is ` ` no claim '' against detained band members . Maria Alyokhina and Anna Tolokonnikova were meeting musicians . Police detained them , three other band members , musicians and journalists . They were in Moscow to record an anti - Putin political protest song .