Pussy Riot member hospitalized

ALJAZEERA: Jailed hunger-striking Pussy Riot punk band member, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who is refusing food in protest over what she has called murder threats and “slave labor conditions,” was moved to a hospital Sunday, an official said.

An officer on duty at hospital No. 21 in the village of Barashevo in the Mordovia region told Agence France-Presse news agency Tolokonnikova, 23, who entered her seventh day of hunger strike Sunday, was moved earlier in the day…

Tolokonnikova and the other jailed Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina are scheduled for release in March… (more)

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