MOSCOW (Reuters) - A jailed member of Russia's Pussy Riot punk band said she was starting a hunger strike on Monday to protest against "slave labour" in her penal colony and said she had received a death threat from a senior prison official.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was sentenced to two years in jail in August 2012 after performing what the band called a "punk prayer" in a Moscow cathedral in a protest against President Vladimir Putin that came amid street protests against his rule.
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