One of the jailed members of the Pussy Riot rock group, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, has been taken to hospital for tests at her own wish, a spokeswoman for the Russian prisons service said.
Tolokonnikova “was transferred to hospital for a diagnostic examination based on her own and her lawyer’s wishes,” the spokeswoman told AFP without giving further details.
The activist is serving a two-year sentence at a prison camp in the Mordovia region in central Russia for an anti-Vladimir Putin performance in a Moscow church.
One other Pussy Riot member, Maria Alyokhina, is serving her two-year term in the Perm region. The third jailed band member Yekaterina Samutsevich was freed on appeal.
Jailed Pussy Riot member taken to hospital: official
