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dipsydoodle

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17. Transferred to a penal colony in her native Krasnoyarsk region.

Reply to Eleanors38 (Original post)

Tue Nov 12, 2013, 08:22 PM

Nov 2013

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

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Nadya Tolokno of punk-rock band Pussy Riot is missing. [View all] Eleanors38 Nov 2013 OP

. Berlum Nov 2013 #1

She's been "missing" since about Oct. 26th dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #2

"Pussy Riot is a scam not dissimilar from Femen" Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2013 #3

It's amazing how seriously Putin/Russia and Eastern Europe and the ME take this "Scam" stevenleser Nov 2013 #6

Not surprised you'd say that. Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #7

If being wary of governments holding political prisoners incommunicado is an offense Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2013 #10

no. your "Pussy Riot is a scam not dissimilar from Femen" is no surprise. Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #11

It's a verbatim quote from DipsyDoodle, hence the quotation marks. Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2013 #12

Ok, my appologies then Katashi_itto Nov 2013 #15

Pussy Riot: whose freedom, whose riot ? dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #14

Anti-government actions? Tastless performance art? Manufactured protests? Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2013 #16

Tolonnikova left Voina -- in an acrimonious split -- in 2009. Brickbat Nov 2013 #18

So her imprisonment is Innertube hoo-doo? Eleanors38 Nov 2013 #4

So? Nobody deserves whet happened to them. Dash87 Nov 2013 #13

She has been found. Apparently they are xferring her to a prison in Siberia stevenleser Nov 2013 #5

Glad her imprisonment wasn't a "scam." Thanks. Eleanors38 Nov 2013 #8

For her sake, I wish it was, but it's clearly not. stevenleser Nov 2013 #9

Transferred to a penal colony in her native Krasnoyarsk region. dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #17