MOSCOW, November 12 (RIA Novosti) – Anti-Kremlin rocker Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been transferred to a penal colony in her native Krasnoyarsk region due to her complaints about her previous facility, Russia’s human rights ombudsman said Tuesday.
The new prison was chosen to ensure Tolokonnikova’s safety and help her “resocialize” in a more comfortable environment, ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said in a statement, the first official confirmation of the jailed rocker’s location in three weeks.
Tolokonnikova, famous for staging a so-called prayer protest in a prominent Moscow cathedral with her all-female band Pussy Riot, was hospitalized last month after a nine-day hunger strike at a Mordovian prison where she said she endured horrific conditions.
http://en.ria.ru/russia/20131112/184669548/Anti-Kremlin-Rocker-Moved-to-Different-Prison-After-Complaints.html
And from today :
Prison Authorities Confirm Tolokonnikova Is in Siberian Jail.
MOSCOW, November 14 (RIA Novosti) – Prison authorities in Russia confirmed Thursday that jailed anti-Kremlin punk rocker Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been moved to a prison in Siberia, definitively ending speculation about her current whereabouts.
Tolokonnikova was transferred out of a penal colony in the Russian republic of Mordovia almost one month ago after launching hunger strikes in protest at the conditions of her detention. Authorities declined to inform relatives and colleagues where she had been taken, prompting widespread outrage.
Tolokonnikova is serving a two-year sentence for participating in an anti-Kremlin performance in a Moscow cathedral staged by the Pussy Riot feminist punk band. The charge she was jailed on last summer was hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.
In a curt two-line statement on its website, the Federal Penitentiary Service said Wednesday that Tolokonnikova had arrived at a facility in the Krasnoyarsk territory and that relatives had been informed of the move in accordance with the law.
http://en.ria.ru/crime/20131114/184708073/Prison-Authorities-Confirm-Tolokonnikova-Is-in-Siberian-Jail.html
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