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Over 100 major musicians -- including Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, U2, Elton John and Don Henley -- have joined a worldwide call for the release of the two jailed members of the Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot. The two women will make an appeal for parole this week.

Paul McCartney recently renewed his support for Pussy Riot, the Russian all-girl punk group who was convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.

Yoko Ono and Amnesty International have announced that members of the jailed Russian group Pussy Riot are among the winners of the 2012 Lennon Ono Grant for Peace. Rolling Stone reported that the members "will be awarded an unspecified grant" during today's (September 21st) ceremony in New York City. While some members of the group fled Russia, three group members remain imprisoned and are appealing their two-year sentence for hooliganism after a demonstration in a church where they burned a poster of Russian president Vladimir Putin.