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Feb 18, 2014 · Nadezhda "Nadya" Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, the two members of the punk protest collective Pussy Riot who recently traveled to New York, said they were arrested Tuesday in Sochi, about 30 ...
Feb 18, 2014 · Nadezhda Tolokonnikova from the band Pussy Riot is escorted to a police car after being detained in the Adler district of Sochi, on February 18, 2014.
Feb 1, 2013 · February 1, 2013 / 6:44 AM EST / AP. Moscow A jailed member of the Pussy Riot feminist punk band has been hospitalized and had complained of headaches and of suffering from overwork at a prison ...
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Nearly four weeks later, after more than 10,000 of you signed our petition, the Russian prison authorities revealed that Nadya is in the Krasnoyarsk region. Discover more cases to take action on Nadya's husband told us he spoke to his wife on the phone on 13 November for the first time in 26 days. He says that Nadya is in the Krasnoyarsk tuberculos...
Technically, prison authorities in Russia can hold a prisoner in an anonymous location as long as the prisoner is in transit. Once Nadya has been moved to a new penal colony her family must be notified within ten days' of her arriving at the new colony. Nadya's lawyer fears that authorities are taking advantage of this legislation to intimidate Nad...
Nadya has protested about the conditions at the penal colony in Mordovia, where she was imprisoned until her disappearance on 22 October. In September Nadya began a hunger strike in protest against what she called slave labour conditions and degrading treatment. As a result, she was send to solitary confinement - according to prison authorities 'fo...
The working conditions at the Mordovian penal colony where Nadya was being held are illegal under Russia's labour code. This was verified by a presidential working group on human rights that visited the colony following Nadya's complaint. 1. Prisoners work 12-16 hours every day, seven days a week 2. They have no contracts or legal protection 3. Pai...
In August 2012, Moscow’s City Court jailed three members of the punk band Pussy Riot for two years. Maria Alekhina, Ekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova were convicted of ‘hooliganism on the grounds of religious hatred’ after playing a gig in Moscow’s main Orthodox cathedral, and miming along to lyrics that criticised the relationship o...
In an open letter, the imprisoned Pussy Riot member explains why the brutal conditions at Penal Colony No 14 have led her to undertake a hunger strike in protest. Pussy Riot member starts hunger ...
Apr 8, 2013 · Mon 8 Apr 2013 10.17 EDT. A member of the anti-Kremlin punk band Pussy Riot has vowed to continue her work as a political artist in her first interview with the western media since being sent to ...
Sep 24, 2013 · The jailing of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova caused an international outcry A jailed member of the punk band Pussy Riot has been moved to an isolation cell for her own safety, prison authorities in ...
