Jailed Pussy Riot member found in Siberian prison hospital
Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova’s husband, Pyotr Verzilov, told Al Jazeera Saturday that he has located his wife at a prison medical facility in Siberia, after not having heard from her since late October.
Tolokonnikova is currently “undergoing extensive diagnosis procedures and receiving treatment” at Regional Tuberculosis Hospital No. 1 in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for “complications that happened at the end of her hunger strike," Verzilov said.
Tolokonnikova went on hunger strike on Sept. 23 to decry slave labor and death threats she had received at her previous penal colony in the western Russian region of Morodovia.
Verzilov spoke with his wife via video Friday from another building in the prison complex.
“She said she was doing fine and her health was ok,” Verzilov said, on the phone from Siberia, where he is petitioning for an in-person meeting with Tolokonnikova next week. Verzilov flew to Siberia earlier this week, after receiving a tip from a source close to the penitentiary system that his wife had arrived in Krasnoyarsk.
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