Monday, November 11, 2013

Who's Afraid of a Little Pussy?

Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is being relocated thousands of miles to a prison colony deep in Siberia, according to her husband Peter Verzilov. Tolokonnikova has been missing for 17 days, since she vanished into the Russian prison system to be transferred to an unknown camp. Verzilov says she is now en route to the city of Krasnoyarsk, 2,600 miles east of Moscow, in the heart of Siberia.
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The exact prison colony where Tolokonnikova will be held is still uncertain, but Verzilov believes it will be Colony 50, near the town of Nizhny Ingash — 190 miles from the city of Krasnoyarsk. This camp is considerably more remote than Tolokonnikova's previous colony in Mordovia, which had been roughly a six-hour drive from Moscow.

Her supporters suggest the authorities have chosen a prison so far from Moscow as a punishment for the nine-day hunger strike that Tolokonnikova began in September to protest conditions in her previous camp. The action, which brought unusual attention onto Russia’s harsh prison system, eventually forced officials to agree to transfer her after Tolokonnikova became dangerously weak.
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In August 2012, Tolokonnikova and her bandmate, Mariya Aloykhina received a two-year jail sentence for participating in a punk-performance in Moscow’ Christ the Saviour Cathedral protesting the rule of president Vladimir Putin. A third bandmember, Ekaterina Samutsevich, was released with a suspended sentence in October last year.
 I'll bet Preznit Obama is green with envy of Vlad's ability to ram this through the Russian courts.

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