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Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina ends hunger strike
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 4 June 2013
Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina ended a hunger strike, which as previously reported landed her in hospital last week, on Saturday after eleven days.
Alyokhina began her protest after claiming that prison authorities had attempted to turn other inmates against her by increasing security around the room where she worked, which had put her in an unsafe position. Pyotr Verzilov, the husband of her jailed bandmate Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, told the Associated Press Alyokhina ended her hunger strike after the prison had met her demands to restore security around her to the normal level.
This was an unexpected development, said Verzilov: “It looks improbable, it’s not in the tradition of the prison system here to make any concessions. There must have been a political decision”.