Jailed Pussy Riot member announces hunger strike

MOSCOW - Agence France-Presse

A file picture taken on October 10, 2012, shows one of the jailed members of the all-girl punk band "Pussy Riot," Maria Alyokhina, smiling as she sits in a glass-walled cage in a court in Moscow. AFP PHOTO / NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA

A jailed member of the Pussy Riot radical rock group on Wednesday announced she was going on hunger strike in protest over the authorities' failure to allow her to attend a parole hearing in person. Maria Alyokhina told a court in the city of Berezniki by video link from her prison camp that she was going on hunger strike and ordering her lawyers to pull out of the parole hearing until she was brought to the court in person, Russian news agencies reported.