In 1999, 20-year-old Tatyana Gavrilova was convicted of murder by the Russian courts. She spent the next 16 years in various institutions. On Sept. 9 this year she was released from the IK-2 women's prison in Mordovia and went straight to Moscow, taking with her a documented account of her treatment at the hands of prison authorities.
Gavrilova described her ordeal to MediaZona, the alternative online news agency established by Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. Her account cannot be independently verified, but her description has struck a chord with many who have endured the harshness of the Russian penal system — including Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova themselves.
Read her story here:Tatyana's history
INC News, 06/12/2014
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