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Pussy Riot's Nadia Tolokonnikova is missing - her location must be identified and prison conditions improved for inmates

Pussy Riot's Nadia Tolokonnikova is missing - her location must be identified and prison conditions improved for inmates

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Vladimir Putin, President of Russia

Please sign the AMNESTY petition as well:

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/pussy-riot-where-nadya?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=IAR&utm_content=PR_missing

And this petition supported by Nadia's father, Andrey Tolokonnikov: https://www.change.org/petitions/where-is-nadia-disclose-the-location-of-pussy-riot-member-nadia-tolokonnikova

I can't make the links above live - please just copy and paste.

Pussy Riot member Nadia 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 sparse, the media has spoken to the imprisoned protester's husband and father, who've helped clarify some of the confusion around a recent prison transfer.

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 (she wrote an 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.

"No one knows anything," said her father, Andrei Tolokonnikova, by telephone from Moscow. Tolokonnikova, 23, is a parent herself. "There's no proof she's alive, we don't know the state of her health. Is she sick? Has she been beaten?"

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