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One of the members of the Russian band Pussy Riot is launching a hunger strike, a year after she was jailed in a penal colony on charges of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred.

In a translated letter published in the Guardian Nadezhda Tolokonnikova writes that she is launching a hunger strike, beginning Sept. 23, to protest slave-like conditions in her prison camp.

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