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JAILED PUSSY RIOT punk rocker Maria Alyokhina has announced an end to her hunger strike after 11 days because the prison has met her demands, the husband of Alyokhina’s bandmate said Saturday.
“Maria said that the prison administration took her on a special tour of the colony, to show her that her demands have been met,” Pyotr Verzilov told AFP, adding that Alyokhina then “announced an end to her hunger strike”.
Alyokhina, 24, was denied parole on May 23. She had gone on a hunger strike a day earlier in protest against the authorities’ refusal to allow her to attend the parole hearing in person.
She later said that the convicts in the colony who live and work with her were locked up in their rooms and denied any movement around the colony’s territory. She suspected that the new restrictive measures were introduced to set other convicts against her.
On Saturday, prison officials took her on a tour, showing her that her demands for the removal of padlocks and restrictions to convicts’ movements have been met, Verzilov said.
Alyokhina is still being treated in the prison hospital.
“She is in the prison hospital and is very weak, but this victory gives her strength,” he said.
Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova — the wife of Verzilov who is held in a different prison colony – were sentenced to two years in prison last August for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred after they performed an anti-Vladimir Putin stunt in a major Moscow cathedral.
Tolokonnikova’s request for parole was also denied in April.
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Not too many messages from Bono or Sinead O Connor about the abuse of this fellow artist.
artist? lol
I just have a problem with the wording ‘religious hate – anti Vladimir Putin’ being so close almost like he’s holy. Putin with his ego the size of the Russian nation sickens me.
It a symptom of the human need to worship something. We have it in Ireland anytime a US president reluctantly calls.
Why are the media treating these youths like they are POWs jailed for all the wrong reasons? They broke some law, are getting their punishment, so be it.
Exactly, you talk to any Russian they agree with their punishment, they’re desperate attention seekers, the western media brushes it up as something it isn’t, anyone who walks into a supermarket and shoves a chicken up their skirt needs locking up tbh
Wrong. The chicken episode was Voina, not Pussy Riot. No evidence whatsoever any of these girls were involved in this.Try educating yourself before spouting self-important garbage. Your avatar would be spinning in his grave.
They desecrated a church…
If it had of been an Islamic country they may have been stoned to death…
Im not religious in any way, but i believe in respect for my fellow mans belief.
same people involved Maurice
In what way did they desecrate a church? Nothing that is legal in one public building should be illegal just because it happens in a church.
People should be respected, beliefs on the other hand are fair game. I’m not saying what they did was tactful or that I agree with their methods, but the should not be in jail.
And which Russians have you spoken to? I’m sure aswell that the majority of Saudis agree with locking up women drivers..
Oleg, Roman, Igor, Pasha just to name a few..
You mean like Putin the war criminal respects the beliefs of the citizens of Grozny? The fact is that since the fall of the USSR, Russia has become the biggest Mafia state in the world and the superpower of crime. These are not my words, they are the words of Boris Yeltsin. And he probably knows more about it than we do. When state companies were being sold off in 1992, they were snapped up by Russian organized crime. Oligarchs became billionaires off the back of this and it was all facilitated by the United States and the EU under the pretense of free markets and the transition to capitalism. Corruption and cronyism are rampant and anyone who stands up to the government or the mafia are brutally crushed. The Orthodox church is a staunch supporter of Putin and his policies. So, no, I won’t respect their beliefs. Not when their beliefs cause untold damage.
@ Maurice You are unfortunately totally misinformed. Yeltsin came under major pressure from international banks, (first and foremost the Rothchild Central Bank who try to dominate world banking and are mainly responsible for the banking crises in Europe today.) to sell Russian assets. Oil Gas etc. When Putin came into power he reversed many of these contracts, paid off the Rothchild bank all outstanding credits and threw all of their representatives (Oligarchs}out of the country. Beriovsky etc. Today onle about 3 countries in the world where the Rotchilds do not have a major share in national banks.Standard of living in Russia has increased by 100 % in the last 10 years. One of the youngest and dynamic democracies in the world..
Be patient
Padraic, you had me worried until you started going off in to mental conspiracy theory territory. Seriously, the Rothschild conspiracy? Let’s just go all David Icke and blame it on the Lizard People. As to kicking the Oligarchs out, you mention Beriovsky. I can only assume you mean Boris Berezovsky, the Oligarch who was elected to the Duma on Vladimir Putin’s political slate and who made billions out of the Robber Baron era straight after the fall of Communism. He left Russia voluntarily and became an exile in Britain, vowing to overthrow Putin in a bloodless coup. He and Litvinenko both conveniently died before any real progress towards this could be made. So, not thrown out, took his billions with him and died under suspicious circumstances. That is enough drama for any man without having to go off into Rothschild conspiracies and The Protocols of The Elders of Zion.
3 years for a punk song in a church is a bit much, no matter how rude it was. A fine or 12 weeks behind bars would have been ok.
These women represent to putin a grass roots movement he crushes them and instils fear in other grassroots movement. Hence reduces the likelyhood of a challange to his personsl feifdom
I notice you are willingly misinformed
@Padraic
Its highly debatable whether Russia is a democracy or not. Gorbachev unequivocally says it is not.
“In Russia, politics is increasingly turning into imitation democracy. All power is in the hands of the executive branch, the president. Parliament only rubber-stamps his decisions. The judicial system is not independent. The monopolized economy is addicted to oil and gas and the scale of corruption has become colossal.”
@ Maurice : @ . Firstly, I don’t know what the lizard people or protocols of The Elders of Zion, or fairy’s for that matter have to do with this. Secondly, Boris Berezoysky did not leave willingly as you state. He escaped. Criminal charges were impending. British police state that there were no suspicious circumstances, and his family accept this.
As regards to the Rothschild central bank, it may benefit you to read up somewhat on the subject before you start talking of Lizards.
There is a lot of information available, both for and against. Mostly for. Google a while, or read some good books.
You can begin with:
adonis49.wordpress.com/…/privately-owned-fe…
@ Maurice : To quote from your own words above to Golden arms : Try educating yourself before spouting self-important garbage”. I myself would never reply to anybody on the journal in this form. Simply, bad manners.
“I myself would never reply to anybody on the journal in this form”.
Forgive me for pointing out the obvious but you just did!
@ Mattoid : Green thumb from me Mattoid. You are correct.
He he pussy
Did all this help or hinder their entertainment careers ?
“Maria Alyokhina has announced an end to her hunger strike after 11 days because the prison has met her demands,”
Guatanamo bay please take notice Boby Sands would also have been happy,but sadly it did not happen.
Lets face it.
It being reported just for the innuendo factor. :)
Well done to her.
Fool. Should have left her starve
Did she by any chance read an article about chippers on the journal?
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