MOSCOW, November 12 (RAPSI) - Russian Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin has filed with the Supreme Court a request to review the sentence of convicted Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, RIA Novosti reported Tuesday.

Lukin also referred to the court Tolokonnikova's appeal against the sentence. According to lawyer Irina Khrunova, on November 5, the appeal was handed over to Lukin and he agreed to support 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 Tolokonnikova and two other Pussy Riot members - Maria Alyokhina 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.