Video - Released Pussy Riot Nadezhda Tolokonnikova interview . 'We are all prisoners in Russia'

Video - Released Pussy Riot Nadezhda Tolokonnikova interview. 'We are all prisoners in Russia'.(Telegraph).

Two members of the girl punk band Pussy Riot were released from Russian jails yesterday defiantly warning Western government's not to be taken in by President Vladamir Putin's prison amnesty claiming it was effort to whitewash the Kremlin's human rights record ahead of the Sochi Winter Olympics.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were set free from separate prisons after serving 21 months in custody following a deliberately provocative punk performance in Moscow's main cathedral in February 2012.

An amnesty — which saw the release of 22,000 people convicted of or charged with non-violent crime — meant their two-year sentence for “hooliganism” was cut by just three months.

It follows the separate pardoning of Russia's most famous prisoner, the tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who did not qualify for the general amnesty.

Speaking to the Telegraph moments after she walked out of a prison hospital in the city of Krasnoyarsk, Miss Tolokonnikova, 24, lashed out at the spectacle of the amnesty echoing her band mates ascetion that it was a "profanity".

"For me it is obvious that the amnesty is PR aimed at the press, and primarily at western audiences and western governments. Putin wants to say to them "look how good everything is, come to the Olympics. I let people out two months early; true, they tried to kill them in prison, but now they've been let go – after everything we did to them.'"

"It's funny, but it wouldn't be funny at all to people who really need it. They should be amnestied – we don't need it.Read the full story here.