We’ve just spoken to Nadya’s husband Pyotr Verzilov, he was finally able to talk with Nadya a few hours ago on the phone as FSIN announced her location. She is in Krasnoyarsk’s tuberculosis hospital No. 1, where she undergoing an MRI and other tests to diagnose complications arising from her hunger strike in Mordovia and she said she’d been kept in isolation since she was cut off from contact with family and lawyers.

This from Pyotr:
“I’ve spoke to her – she is in good condition and in the prison hospital undergoing various diagnostic procedures related to the complications of her last Mordovian hunger strike.

Says that conditions are way better then Mordovia and she is cheerful….was super happy to hear that authorities in Mordovia have reversed several rejections in the investigation into her death threats and have issued a special reprimand punishment towards the head of her old prison in Mordovia.”

Of course we’re all breathing a sigh of relief that Nadya is ok which we’ll enjoy today, though at the same time tempered by: 1. We have no guarantee ongoing contact will be granted to her, and with her having been held incommunicado from any outside contact with lawyers or family for 26 days under the pretense of transfer procedure, it remains to be seen what kind of access there will be now – and the support team will obviously be staying on top of that, and 2. Pyotr and his team will now have the increased challenge of maintaining contact, visitation, local attorney safety monitoring, and supplying to this remote Siberian prison about 2,500 miles and four times zones from Moscow, and this we will endeavor to facilitate with your help.

The Voice Project’s Pussy Riot Support Fund is an international fund taking in donations from around the world; proceeds are used to keep Nadya and Masha clothed, supplied, visited and monitored in the labor camps (this is critical for their ongoing safety), and for their legal expenses and children’s care. For more information or to donate:voiceproject.org/pussyriot