MOSCOW, November 20 (RAPSI) - The defense of convicted Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina on Wednesday will file with the Supreme Court a supervisory appeal against her sentence, her lawyer Irina Khrunova told RAPSI.

Earlier, another Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova lodged with the Supreme Court a similar appeal. Russian Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin supported the application.

In February 2012, five young women wearing brightly colored balaclavas staged a punk rock prayer in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral. An edited video of their performance was posted on the Internet and caused a public outcry.

In August 2012, the Khamovnichesky District Court in Moscow sentenced Alyokhina and two other Pussy Riot members - Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich - to two years in a prison settlement for hooliganism.

In October 2012, the Moscow City Court changed Samutsevich's verdict to a suspended sentence and released her immediately based on her new attorneys' argument that she had been seized by security guards prior to reaching the altar.

The sentences of Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina were upheld.