Family of Pussy Riot Member Says She's Cut Off

The family of jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova accuse Russian authorities of trying to cut her off from them and the outside world, reports BuzzFeed. Tolokonnikova's husband says he hasn't had any contact with his wife since she got shipped off by train to a new prison on Oct. 21. The transfer came after the second of two hunger strikes she staged to protest prison conditions. She got her wish to be transferred from a penal colony in the Mordova region, but officials are keeping her new location secret.

“This is how the system makes a person disappear without a trace for weeks,” her husband tells the Daily Beast. He adds to Buzzfeed: “This is basically the only way they have to punish Nadya—'Let’s cut her off from the outside world.'" Her father, meanwhile, complains that "no one knows anything. ... Is she sick? Has she been beaten?” Still, Tolokonnikova and bandmate Maria Alyokhina remain on track to be released in March on their "hooligan" charges, stemming from a protest concert in a Moscow church. (More Pussy Riot stories.)