Security is tight outside a court in Russia Wednesday as an appeal hearing for members of the punk band Pussy Riot is set to resume.<br/> <br />Three members of the all girl band are serving two year jail terms for "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" after performing an anti-Kremlin song in Moscow's main cathedral earlier this year.<br/> <br />The court is set to rule on an appeal to overturn that conviction.<br/> <br />The hearing was delayed from last week when one of the defendants requested different representation.<br/> <br />The women, aged 30, 22, and 24, will be sent to a prison colony far outside the capital, Moscow if the appeal is overruled.<br/> <br />Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a TV interview last week that the women had been justly sentenced.
