A teenage street musician in Russia has once again been jailed after briefly tasting freedom. Diana Loginova, 18, a performer from St. Petersburg who sings under the name “Naoko” with the band Stoptime, walked out of prison Monday after serving nearly a month for performing banned songs—only to be detained again almost immediately, according to Reuters.
Loginova was sentenced to another 13 days behind bars, continuing a cycle of punishment that began when her performances of politically charged music went viral online. Authorities first arrested her and other Stoptime members last month after she sang “Swan Lake Cooperative,” a banned song by exiled rapper Noize MC. The title references the Tchaikovsky ballet long associated with political turmoil in Russia, and its performance drew police attention, leading to a 13-day sentence for a public order offense.
When Loginova later performed “You Are a Soldier” by Monetochka, an artist branded a “foreign agent” by the Kremlin, she was again convicted—this time for petty hooliganism—and received another 13-day jail term along with a $369 fine for allegedly discrediting the Russian army.
Loginova and her fiancé, Stoptime guitarist Alexander Orlov, had just completed those back-to-back sentences when police detained them again—Orlov on Sunday night and Loginova on Monday morning—reportedly on charges of organizing an unsanctioned gathering, reports the Moscow Times. There’s no indication that Vladislav Leontyev, Stoptime’s drummer who was released at the same time, has been re-arrested.
Loginova maintains her innocence, insisting her group is being targeted for nothing more than making music. “We’ve been accused of lots of things we didn’t do,” she told the BBC last month. “All we were doing was bringing the music we like to a mass audience.”