So much for Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calling for Pussy Riot to be freed.
Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich may now be free, but her compatriots, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, are heading to Russian gulag-style prisons. Alyokhina will serve her two-year term at women’s prison camp in Perm, Siberia. It’s known for particularly harsh camps. Tolokonnikova has been sent to Mordovia.
“These are the harshest camps of all the possible choices,” the band said on Monday via its Twitter account.
It seems that the prison systems in Perm and Mordovia have a number of camps, some of which were part of the old Soviet gulag system. For the uninitiated, the gulag system was the USSR’s forced labor camp where political dissidents were sent.
It’s unclear if Nadezhda and Tolokonnikova are in any of these old gulag camps. The Russian government is remaining silent on their whereabouts.
