The Moscow Times
Sunday 3rd March, 2013
Pussy Riot band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been sent to solitary confinement for 15 days in a punishment that her supporters say is meant to prevent her from winning early release. Prison officials at Mordovia colony No. 14 sentenced Tolokonnikova to 15 days as punishment for going to the prison’s medical center without being accompanied by a guard, her lawyer Oleg Nevlyutov said Saturday. The punishment was announced by her supporters late Friday, the same day that she became eligible to apply for parole. Prison violations can be used to reject parole appeals. Tolokonnikova is servi…
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