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Great to see this
Free Pussy Riot banner at tonight's football match between Manchester City and
CSKA Moscow. It may have been swiftly removed by stewards, but the image of it
is already going round the world.
This week's the
family of Nadya Tolokonnikova complained that she has been 'disappeared' in the
prison system. According to the Independent (2 November 2013):
'A
Pussy Riot member imprisoned at a Russian camp hasn't been heard from for 10
days, her family has said. Nadya Tolokonnikova was moved from her prison colony
in the Russian republic of Mordovia on 21 October. She is currently serving two
years for her band's performance of a crude song in a Moscow church in February
2012.She had been on hunger strike over conditions in the prison.
Her father, Andrei
Tolokonnikov, told Buzzfeed: “No one knows anything. There’s no proof she’s
alive, we don’t know the state of her health. Is she sick? Has she been beaten?”
Her husband, Petya Verzilov, has been protesting outside the colony regularly.
He said: “We think they moved her to a big city to hide her. It seems they got
sick of these protests. They want to cut her off from the outside world. When
they moved [political prisoner Mikhail] Khodorkovsky, he was also kind of absent
for two weeks. Nobody knew where he was, then he suddenly appeared in
Chita."
During the
offending protest the all-female punk band ran into Moscow's biggest cathedral
sang a song calling on the Virgin Mary to kick President Vladimir Putin out of
office. Tolokonnikova and fellow member Maria Alyokhina are serving sentences
for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” following the performance'.
Meanwhile 28
Greenpeace activists and 2 journalists remain in prison charged with hooliganism
after a protest at a Russian offshore oil rig in the Arctic in September. These
high profile cases are just the tip of the iceberg. Last month (27
October) thousands of people took part in a rally in Moscow in
solidarity with political prisoners.
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