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Lawyer: Pussy Riot Members Transferred To Prison Camps

October 22, 2012

Two members of the feminist punk performance-art group Pussy Riot who were convicted of religiously motivated hooliganism in August are being transferred to a penal colony to serve the rest of their two-year sentences.

One of the group's lawyers, Mark Feigin, said Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, might be bound for a women's penal camp in Mordovia, while Maria Alyokhina, 24, might be sent to a camp in Perm.

The Russian authorities have not yet said where the women will serve their sentences.

A third Pussy Riot member, 29-year-old Yekaterina Samutsevich, was also sentenced to two years in prison, but her sentence was suspended upon appeal earlier this month.

Based on reporting by Interfax and ITAR-TASS

Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/pussy-riots-members-transferred/24746871.html

Copyright (c) 2012. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave., N.W. Washington DC 20036.