<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; ">The prisons in Perm and Mordovia are some of the harshest camps in all Russia, known for<a></a><a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/russia-prison-system-working-pussy-riot-member-death"> </a><b><a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/russia-prison-system-working-pussy-riot-member-death">severely unhealthy conditions, a complete absence of privacy and a brutal social hierarchy</a></b><b><a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/russia-prison-system-working-pussy-riot-member-death"> </a></b>where convicts are subject to abuse and sexual violence by both prison guards. </p><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; ">This summer, Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, began two-year prison sentences there for daring to stand against Vladimir Putin. <b>Now Nadezhda has been hospitalized after toiling in prison yards around the clock -- and sources say her life is in danger.</b></p>Media attention this summer already caused Putin's puppets to stop pushing for the maximum penalty and pardon one member of the group. <a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/russia-prison-system-working-pussy-riot-member-death"><b>Don't let Nadezhda become a martyr for dissent: </b></a>call for Pussy Riot to be transferred to a Moscow facility now!<div style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><blockquote><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; ">PETITION TO VLADIMIR PUTIN AND RUSSIAN PENAL AUTHORITIES: There is no reason to deny Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova the right to serve their two-year prison terms in Moscow to be closer to their children. The world is watching: Transfer Maria and Nadezhda now!</p></blockquote><br><div style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0em; "><b><a href="http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/2390?n=16719602.icNsd4" style="font-size: 23px; ">Click here to sign -- it just takes a second.</a></b></p></body></html>