MOSCOW, November 19 (RAPSI) - Convicted Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has not worked overtime in the Mordovian colony, according to a statement released by Russia's Ministry of Labour and Social Protection via the Presidential Council for Human Rights.

On September 23, Tolokonnikova declared a hunger strike and requested the initiation of a criminal case against the deputy warden, who she alleged threatened her with murder. She also complained about the custodial circumstances and conditions of work. The Federal Penitentiary Service claims that the hunger strike was initiated after after her demands to be comfortably accommodated in prison were rejected. On October 1, Tolokonnikova called off the strike. She reportedly gave up her nine-day-long fast because of unspecified health problems.

Investigators have dismissed her request to initiate a case against the deputy warden of her Mordovian colony. On October 18, she declared another hunger strike, and after a few days the Federal Service for Execution of Punishment said that Pussy Riot member will be moved to another prison. In November, Tolokonnikova was transferred to the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

According to the statement, the Federal Labour and Employment Service (Rostrud) will continue to monitor the observance of the convicts' rights in the Mordovian colony after Tolokonnikova's hunger strike.

In February 2012, five young women wearing brightly colored balaclavas staged a punk rock prayer in Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral. An edited video of their performance was posted on the Internet and caused a public outcry.

In August 2012, the Khamovnichesky District Court in Moscow sentenced Tolokonnikova and two other Pussy Riot members - Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich - to two years in a prison settlement for hooliganism.

In October 2012, the Moscow City Court changed Samutsevich's verdict to a suspended sentence and released her immediately based on her new attorneys' argument that she had been seized by security guards prior to reaching the altar.

The sentences of Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina were upheld.