Pussy Riot duo change prisons
Two female members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot convicted of protesting against president Vladimir Putin in a cathedral have been sent to prisons far from Moscow, despite requesting to serve out their terms in the capital, a lawyer has said.
Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, were convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” in August.
One of their lawyers, Mark Feigin, said yesterday he did not know where the women had been sent.
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