 Source: HRO.org (info) Mordovia Prisoners Political prisoners Freedom of conscience Artistic freedom Harassment of activists On 14 March at a meeting of the parole commission, the administration of penal colony No. 14 in Mordovia opposed parole for Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Агорa Human Rights Association reports, citing a Twitter post by Petr Verzilov, the partner of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. According to Verzilov, the colony administration said that “Tolokonnikova has a good reference from the colony’s workshops, but the disciplinary measures to which she has been subject and her refusal to recognize her guilt mean that she must remain for a further period in the penal colony.” “It is obvious that Tolokonnikova has not begun the process of correcting her behaviour, and therefore we shall ask the court to deny her parole,” Petr Verzilov cited the formal decision of the colony’s administration. According to a ruling by the Constitutional Court of 1 March 2012, the absence of repentance for a crime cannot hinder the application of parole to a convicted person. |
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