MOSCOW -- A lawyer for the two jailed Pussy Riot band members
says they have been transferred to prison colonies hundreds of miles
from Moscow to serve their sentence.
Mark Feygin said Monday that Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Toloko
nnikova
were transferred during the weekend from Moscow prison, where they were
kept since March. Feygin said prison authorities informed him that
Alekhina had been sent to the Perm region in the Urals and Tolokonnikova
to the central province of Mordovia. He could not confirm the
information with his clients.
Alekhina, Tolokonnikova, and
Yekaterina Samutsevich, were convicted of hooliganism motivated by
religious hatred in August for performing a protest prayer against
President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral in February, and
given two-year sentences. Samutsevich was released on appeal earlier
this month.
Associated Press