Mobius Strip plays outside the Russian Embassy during an August 14 concert protesting the trial of Pussy Riot. (Photo by Eric Spiegel)

A week after three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in prison after voicing their opposition to the Orthodox Church and President Vladimir Putin, some of the group’s supporters in D.C. are heading back to the Russian Embassy to protest the verdict.

Pussy Riot supporters are planning on assembling outside the embassy at 2650 Wisconsin Avenue NW at noon today to voice their objection to the prosecution of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich. This protest is the latest assembly of D.C. residents upset by what was widely seen as a show trial based on overblown charges of hooliganism.

Two weeks ago, four local punk bands played an impromptu concert outside the embassy, a show that harkened back to the days when D.C.’s hardcore music scenesters lined up outside the South African Embassy to protest that nation’s apartheid regime. (I wrote about that topic last week for The New Republic.)

Kevin Starbard, one of the organizers of today’s rally, says there wasn’t enough advance notice to book a band this time, but that there will be “plenty of punk rock playing loudly on the street.”