Pussy Riot member goes on hunger strike in jail
Together with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Alyokhina is one of two imprisoned members of the Russian punk collective, following the release on suspended sentence of a third member, Yekaterina Samutsevich, last year. The three women wereimprisoned for two years in August 2012 for breach of public order motivated by religious hatred after staging their infamous 'punk prayer' protest against Vladimir Putin in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral.
Alyokhina told a court via a video link that she would be going on hunger strike as she had been refused the right to attend her own parole hearing and as such her rights had been violated with this decision.