(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130124-pussyriot-4a.photoblog600.jpg)Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP - Getty Images, fileMaria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova sit in a glass-walled cage in a Moscow court last October.By Alissa de Carbonnel, ReutersMOSCOW -- One of two jailed members of the Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot said she received death threats and complained of abuse at a prison colony where she is serving a two-year sentence for a protest (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/17/13332092-russian-court-sentences-pussy-riot-rockers-to-2-years-in-prison?lite) against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow's main cathedral.
But Maria Alyokhina and fellow group member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova said they did not regret the protest, despite describing harsh prison conditions in interviews published on Wednesday by the opposition-leaning Novaya Gazeta newspaper.
Alyokhina, 24, who lost an appeal this month to have her sentence deferred to care for her 5-year-old son, said she was transferred to solitary confinement in November after being threatened by inmates she suspects of acting on the orders of prison officials.Members of the band Pussy Riot, arrested in February after storming a Moscow cathedral, were sentenced to two years in jail Friday. Critics say the arrest was Putin's personal revenge, raising questions about justice in Russia. NBC's Duncan Golestani reports.
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