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A few months into her sentence, she took the abusive guards to court and won the first case against prison guards in the history of her penal colony.
The new two members of the band Pussy Riot who remain behind bars lost an appeal to serve out the length of their two-year sentences at a Moscow pre-trial detention center on Monday.
After the biggest prisoner exchange between Russia and the West since the Cold War, Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova, who spent nearly two years in a Russian penal colony, told CNN what she...
Maria Alyokhina was sent to a penal colony as a member of the feminist punk collective. Authorities "teach you how to forget your right to choose," she says. She urges Griner "to not forget...
Two members of Russian female punk band Pussy Riot – convicted of protesting against President Vladimir Putin in a cathedral – have been sent to prisons far from Moscow despite requesting to...
Nadya Tolokonnikova isn’t one to dither. Known best as a co-founder of Pussy Riot, she has—after being released from prison, where she was sentenced to two years on charges of “hooliganism ...
In 2012, Russian activist Nadya Tolokonnikova was sentenced to two years in prison for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” after her band Pussy Riot protested against Vladimir Putin’s...