Posted on 11/05/2013 5:26:58 AM PST by don-o
AFP - Jailed Pussy Riot band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is on her way to a new penal colony in Siberia, her husband said Tuesday, following fears after two weeks without information about her whereabouts.
Tolokonnikova, 23, who alleged major prison abuses in her previous colony in central Russia, is on her way to a new prison colony deep in the Krasnoyarsk region, her husband Pyotr Verzilov wrote on Twitter, saying the information comes from a reliable source.
The penal colony number 50 in the town of Nizhny Ingash lies about 300 kilometres (185 miles) from the regional centre Krasnoyarsk, four time zones away from Moscow and sitting on Russia's Trans-Siberian railway.
"Essentially, she is transferred 4,500 kilometres (2,800 miles) from central Russia to the heart of Siberia as punishment for the resonance of her letter" that alleged abuses, Verzilov added.
With just months left of her two-year term for performing a "punk prayer" in Russia's main Orthodox cathedral protesting ties between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin, Tolokonnikova had demanded to be transferred from her prior colony in Mordovia region.
She went on a hunger strike in protest of conditions she described as "slave labour" and constant harassment by colony administration. The strike ended when she started having health problems and was placed on a drip in the prison hospital.
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She can join the Greenpeace protesters and spend a few winters in Siberia. When they are released they will no doubt have a whole new perspective on global warming, the burning of fossil fuels and the defacing of Christian churches. Next time Greenpeace can try their tactics in China and Pussy Riot can take their act to Saudi Arabia.
Outrageous
You are showing your latent facism
Kinda weird. I thought they had quit doing that.
Her crime seems to be complaining about prison conditions.
pic?
She’s obviously unrepentant for her blasphemy, and is trying to play the “human rightser” card. Phooey!!!!
Well if her husband can’t/won’t keep her under control at least the Russian government is willing to give it a shot.
Just goes to show, the Russians always crush dissent, 1905, 1917, 1920-1953 and today. They are a Hellish people. Putin will get what he deserves, in good time. Until then, you have to tip your hat at how he has played Obama like a field mouse.
Typical Russian babe. Luckily those Siberian rations and work will keep her from ballooning into a babushka.
where is the sarc tag on your comment
Last I checked, even in Russia blasphemy isn’t a crime. That’s the kind of nonsense you get in Saudi and other primitive muzzie hellholes.
People should not be prosecuted for saying prison sucks. Well that is assuming you have any respect for human rights, but don’t let me make assumptions about you.
Cable TV had a special on special security prisons for harden criminals. Prisoners are kept in their cells except for one hour of exercise. It begins with a detachment of guards going to one cell. Prisoner is blindfolded and during transit or stops assume the following position. You lean foward with both arms extend to the rear. Gurards secure your hands and that is how you walk from point A to point B at the same time blindfolded. If you freak out and lash out in that position the guards can easily bring you down. Prisoners eat in their cells and go to exercise one at a time. At no time do prisoners get to congregate in huge numbers. As the Russian warden points out is the weak point of US prisons. When prisoners congregate they can converse and plot escapes or uprising. Worst feuding gangs can start fighting. Once a large group breaks out fighting the prison guards are hard to suppress it without using violent force. The Russian procedure of isolated activity one prisoner at a time requires smaller guard and staff at Russian prisons for the large number of prisoners.
AS I understand it, their crime was demonstrating in a church. I am not aware of any vandalism or defacement being involved.
I also don’t know if they disrupted a service in progress.
I agree. We may all end up moving to Russia to escape persecution in America.
On March 3, 2012, two of the group members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were arrested and charged with hooliganism. A third member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was arrested on March 16. Denied bail, they were held in custody until their trial began in late July. On August 17, 2012, the three members were convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”, and each was sentenced to two years imprisonment.
http://rt.com/news/pussy-riot-trial-896/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19297373
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/aug/17/pussy-riot-sentenced-prison-putin?newsfeed=true
AFAIK, in the US the only crime they could have been charged with is trespassing.
You do understand that what happened to these women is wanton political persecution, right?
You can't be serious. You as a dissident FReeper would be in jail if you were in Russia under Putin's creeping totalitarianism.
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