Pussy Riot member launches hunger strike to protest prison conditions

[JURIST] A member of the Russian feminist rock group Pussy Riot [RASPI backgrounder; JURIST news archive], Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, launched a hunger strike [letter] Monday in protest of living conditions and death threats from the deputy head of the prison in which she is serving her two-year sentence. Tolokonnikova wrote an open letter [Guardian report] detailing life inside the prison colony, stating that the prisoners work up to 17 hours a day and get four hours of sleep per night. She...

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