Video: Freed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova calls for boycott of Winter Olympics I have acquired a unique experience and it will be much easier for me to engage in human rights activities than before. I've matured and learned about the state from within, I've seen this small totalitarian machine as it is from the inside. Russia is built on a prison colony. That is why it is so important to change the prison system in order to change Russia," she told reporters. She told reporters that she and Alekhina will form a group to engage in the human rights movement. Tolokonnikova, Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred and sentenced to two years in prison for the performance at Moscow's main cathedral in March 2012. Samutsevich was released several months later on suspended sentence. The band members said their protest was meant to raise their concern about increasingly close ties between the state and the church. The amnesty that enabled the band members' release is seen as the Kremlin's attempt to soothe criticism of Russia's human rights record ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February. The Russian parliament passed the amnesty bill last week, allowing the release of thousands of inmates. Alekhina and Tolokonnikova, who were due for release in March, qualify for amnesty because they have small children.