Two members of Pussy Riot sent to brutal Russian prisons

By Mona Goldwater, Human Rights Editor

Jack sent this article from this morning's Moscow Times (he shot it with his camera from the actual paper).  One member of PR has been freed, and the other two sent off to the Gulag.  

Maria Alyokhina, 24, will serve the rest of her two-year term at a women's prison camp in Perm, Siberia--as you know, a region notorious for hosting some of the Soviet Union's most brutal prison camps. 

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, has been sent to Mordovia, a region that also hosts a high number of prisons, not as notorious, but it sounds just as horrific.

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