The two jailed members of Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina (24) and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (22), will serve the remainder of their two-year jail terms in Russian prison camps, it has been revealed.

The punk rock musicians are to be sent to separate camps in the regions of Siberia and Mordovia, although the exact location of their incarceration has been kept a secret by authorities. Both regions are renowned for having several prison camps.

“These are the harshest camps of all the possible choices”, the Pussy Riot Twitter feed announced yesterday.

The pair remain in custody on charges of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”. Earlier this month, Yekaterina Samutsevich was released on suspended sentence after the court accepted her appeal against conviction, on the grounds that she had not taken part in the group’s ‘punk prayer’ at a church in Moscow this February. Samutsevich successfully argued that guards at the church had, in fact, detained her before the performance began

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