Gulag Prison for Pussy Riot Band Members is Icon of Putin Dictatorship’s Increasing Repression

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Pussy Riot members taken to Russian ‘prison hell’

AFP – Two members of punk band Pussy Riot have been taken to remote Russian prison colonies notorious for their harsh conditions after a court this month upheld their two-year sentences, their lawyer said on Monday. “Nadya Tolokonnikova has been sent to Mordovia, and Maria Alyokhina to Perm,” defence lawyer said.

Russian secret services have allegedly carried out a “rendition” by plucking a Russian opposition figure, Leonid Razvozzhayev, from a Kiev street in broad daylight last Saturday and transferring him to Lefortovo prison in Moscow. The alleged kidnapping occurred just as Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.