spin.com
November 2, 2013
Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is missing, according to family members who say she hasn’t been heard from since October 21. While news reports from Russia have been difficult to parse, BuzzFeed has spoken to the imprisoned protester’s husband and father, who’ve helped clarify some of the confusion around the woman’s recent prison transfer.
As previously reported, Tolokonnikova staged a hunger strike in order to raise awareness of poor prison conditions and “slave-like” work requirements at central Russian labor colony FGU IK-14 in Mordovia (read her open letter via the Guardian). She’d also reported death threats leveled at her by de facto colony administrator Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Kupriyanov.
But as news broke that Russian authorities would not to investigate that allegation, word also circulated that Tolokonnikova had been moved, possibly to a prison in Alatyr, a small town in Chuvashia, roughly 100 miles east of Mordovia. She was indeed moved by train, but her destination is unknown. One passenger saw her in transit in Chelyabinsk, another 720 miles east of Chuvashia.
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