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" Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been transferred to a prison hospital, it has been reported. Tolokonnikova and her bandmate Maria Alyokhina are currently serving two-year prison sentences at remote Russian penal colonies, after a judge found them guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred in court last August.   Tolokonnikova was transferred in late January in order to get medical attention for severe headaches following an official appeal to the prison director at the IK-14 colony, reports The Guardian. &amp;quot;The penal colony she is in is a hard one,&amp;quot; said fellow Pussy Riot member Yekaterina Samutsevich, who was freed on appeal last October. &amp;quot;She works in two shifts... and has no time to relax.&amp;quot; Samutsevich also claimed that Tolokonnikova had been left &amp;quot;exhausted&amp;quot; by extra evening chores given to her on top of her regular work sewing uniforms for the Russian security services.  Pussy Riot were put on trial following their performance of a &amp;#039;punk prayer&amp;#039; criticising Russian president Vladimir Putin at Moscow&amp;#039;s Christ the Saviour Cathedral in February 2012. Alyokhina recently spoke out against the conditions at the Perm Corrective Labour Colony where she is imprisoned, saying that the regime &amp;quot;forms a slave mentality&amp;quot; on its inmates. Watch the original Pussy Riot &amp;#039;punk prayer&amp;#039; video which led to the group&amp;#039;s imprisonment below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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