Update: Rolling Stone reports that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was moved to a hospital, not a new prison, so she could be treated for conditions related to her hunger strike.
News update, everyone: Pussy Riot’s missing member Nadya Tolokonnikova is alive and (relatively?) well. Missing since earlier this month, Tolokonnikova has been discovered in a Siberian penal colony. She has ended the hunger strike which she started in September to bring attention to the horrendous conditions facing prisoners like herself.
Vladimir Lukin, a Russian human rights official, told news agency ITAR-TASS that Tolokonnikova’s alleged disappearance can be attributed to the standard 10-day quarantine that Russian prisoners receive between transferring prisons. According to Lukin, the jailed Pussy Riot member will meet with lawyers and her husband this week. Tolokonnikova, along with fellow punk rockers Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alekhina, received a sentence of two year’s imprisonment after a now-famous Pussy Riot performance at Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral protesting the links between the Russian Orthodox Church and President Vladimir Putin. The charge was described as “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred or hostility.” Although Samutsevich has been freed, Tolokonnikova and Alekhina have been sentenced till March 2014.
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