Pussy Riot activist told ‘confess or your children die’ in worst Russia clampdown since communism

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Russia activist told ‘confess or your children die’

AFP – A Russian opposition activist has said he was abducted from Ukraine, apparently by Russian special services, and tortured into confessing to a plot against President Vladimir Putin, a report said Wednesday. Leonid Razvozzhayev, who is now being held in a Moscow prison after investigators said.

The jailed Pussy Riot punks, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina have arrived at prison camps in remote Russian regions, a defence lawyer said Wednesday. “Tolokonnikova has arrived at corrective labour camp 14 in Mordovia and Alyokhina has arrived at camp 32 in Perm,” lawyer Violetta Volkova said.