he administration of Penal Colony No. 5 (IK-5) in Russia’s Oryol region has issued a formal, two-page response to a letter from Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson regarding the treatment of imprisoned Russian activist Mikhail Kriger. The letter never mentions Kriger by name—nor does it address the specific allegations of mistreatment that have led the activist to maintain a hunger strike for over a month. Instead, the document offers only a boilerplate description of the penal system’s legal framework and its corrective goals, describing the prison’s actions as “proper and lawful.”
The letter was shared with Mediazona by Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova.