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Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is now at a prison in Chelyabinsk, Russia, her husband says
But she hasn't been heard from since late October, he tells CNN
Authorities have 10 days to inform her husband of the transfer
Convicted Pussy Riot punk rock band member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has not been heard from since she was transferred from a prison more than 300 miles east of Moscow, husband Petr Verzilov told CNN on Saturday.
Verzilov said his wife was moved to a prison in Chelyabinsk, Russia, on October 24 or 25. She was relocated from a Mordovia prison.
Under law, authorities will inform her family about her transfer within 10 days of her arrival at a different penal colony, the country’s Federal Penitentiary Service’s press office told Russian news agency Interfax on Saturday.
Tolokonnikova was sent to Mordovia last year for her part in a performance of a “punk prayer” critical of Vladimir Putin, who was then Russia’s Prime Minister and is now the country’s President. The performance was held at a Russian Orthodox cathedral.
Found guilty of hooliganism, the 23-year-old musician was sentenced to two years in a penal colony.
She has less than six months left on her sentence, but on September 23, she declared the conditions at the prison to be intolerable and began a hunger strike.
