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FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 file photo feminist punk group Pussy Riot members, from left, Yekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass cage at a court room in Moscow, Russia. Russian prison officials say that Maria Alekhina, one of the jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot has been moved into a solitary cell following tensions with inmates. Stanislav Volegov, a spokesman for the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Perm region in the Urals where Maria Alekhina is serving her two-year term, said on independent Rain TV that she had been moved into a “safe” cell at her own request. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File)

Pussy Riot member moved into solitary cell after tensions with inmates, prison officials say

MOSCOW – Russian prison officials say one of the jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot has been moved into a solitary cell following tensions with other inmates.

Federal Penitentiary Service spokesman Stanislav Volegov said on Rain TV Friday that Maria Alekhina was moved into a “safe” cell at her own request. Other prison officials said, according to Russian news wires, that Alekhina made the request over her perception that fellow prisoners had a negative attitude to her.

Alekhina and two other band members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were sentenced in August to two years in prison on hooliganism charges for performing a “punk prayer” against President Vladimir Putin at Moscow’s main cathedral. Samutsevich was released on appeal, but Tolokonnikova and Alekhina are serving their sentences in prison camps.

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