Two members of the protest group Pussy Riot say they have been detained while walking around Sochi, where Russia is hosting the Winter Olympics.<br /><br />Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova used Twitter to send pictures of their detention, claiming they were thrown into a police van.<br /><br />Police have confirmed taking them in for questioning, saying it is over theft at the hotel in which the pair are staying.<br /><br />Released from prison in December under a mass amnesty ahead of the Games, the activists recently returned to Russia after touring Europe and the US.<br /><br />They had been jailed for two years for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred for performing a protest song against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s main cathedral in February 2012.<br /><br />The two women were in Sochi with other members of Pussy Riot to record a musical film called “Putin will teach you to love the motherland”, Tolokonnikova’s husband said on his Twitter microblog.
