Really? Doing a performance art protest in a church earned them two years in prison? In Siberia?
It was reported today that the two remaining imprisoned members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot will serve their terms not in Moscow–where they would be near their young children–but in remote women’s prison camps all too reminiscent of the gulag days of Soviet repression. So much for Russian democratization.
Maria Alyokhina, 24, has been sent to Perm in Siberia, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, to Mordovia. Via Twitter the band said, “These are the harshest camps of all the possible choices.”
Alyokhina has a five-year-old son, Tolokonnikova a four-year-old daughter.
