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Nadezhda Tolkokonnikova ends hunger strike
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 3 October 2013
Pussy Riot’s Nadezhda Tolkokonnikova has announced that she has ended the hunger strike she began last month, due to health problems arising from it. As previously reported, Tolkokonnikova was hospitalised last Friday having stopped eating on Monday that week in protest at the conditions in the prison where she is currently being held, having been jailed last year for performing a protest song in a Moscow church.
However, she has said that she will resume her protest if her demands for improvements are not met, and continues to insist that her claims must be fully investigated. The Russian Human Rights Council has already inspected the prison, and did find that working conditions correlated with her claims that prisoners were forced to work very long hours.
