Imprisoned Pussy Riot Member Nadya Tolokonnikova Reportedly Missing

Sunday, November 3rd, 2013

Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot

Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova has reportedly disappeared following a transfer to a new prison facility 10 days ago. Tolokonnikova was moved from a Mordovia prison camp and since then, her family says, they have been unaware of her whereabouts.

“No one knows anything,” Tolokonnikova’s father Andrei said. “There’s no proof she’s alive, we don’t know the state of her health. Is she sick? Has she been beaten?” On Friday, her father and husband Petr Verzilov said they last knew her precise whereabouts on October 21, 2013.

Tolokonnikova and her Pussy Riot bandmate Maria Alyokhina are slated for release in March next year. The two were sentenced to a two-year prison term on charges of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” following an anti-Putin protest in a Moscow church. Recently, Tolokonnikova staged a five-day hunger strike in protest of poor prison conditions.

For more info, visit CNN. (via Music Feeds)

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