Russia’s PM urges Pussy Riot members release from jail a husband tried to visit

Via The Washington Post

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Also Friday, Tolokonnikova’s husband, Pyotr Verzilov, was turned away by authorities when he tried to visit her at a prison camp in the village of Partsa in Mordovia, a region well known in Russia for the Gulag camps here filled with the tens of thousands in the 1930s.
He had brought paperwork regarding the ongoing legal drama of the Pussy Riot trial, which should have enabled him to meet his wife on prison grounds. But he was told that she remains in quarantine for several more days.
Tolokonnikova and a team of lawyers are planning an appeal to a regional court, requesting that her sentence be put off until the couple’s daughter, 4-year-old Gera, is 14, Verzilov said.
While both Tolokonnikova and Alekhina both have small children, their lawyers’ frequent reference to that fact has had little effect on Pussy Riot members’ two-year sentences, which were upheld in an October appeal."