Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot has been transferred to a new prison Rolling Stone reports. Officials with Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service confirmed the news yesterday following the her family's announcement that the protestor had disappeared after being removed from the penal colony where she had previously been held.
Tolokonnikova wrote a open letter about the inhumane conditions in her prison, and announced that she would go on a hunger strike in protest. Rather than investigate the conditions of the prison, the Russian authorities transferred her to another prison. Individuals confirmed seeing her be moved by train but no one had heard from her since Oct. 22.
"No one knows anything," said her father, Andrei Tolokonnikova, he father told Buzzfeed Friday. "There's no proof she's alive, we don't know the state of her health. Is she sick? Has she been beaten?"
According to the Guardian, the Federal Penitentiary Service explained to Tolokonnikova's family that she was sent to a new prison and would be informed of her whereabouts within 10 days of her arrival, in line with regulations.
"We think they moved her to a big city to hide her," Tolokonnikov's father said. "It seems they got sick of these protests," her husband, Petya Versilov, added, "They want to cut her off from the outside world."
The 23-year-old was serving a two-year sentence for hooliganism after Pussy Riot protested in a politically provocative performance at Moscow's main Orthodox Cathedral in 2012.
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