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| Anti-Kremlin Pussy Riot activist seriously ill in hospital: colleagues |
| 2018-09-13 |
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prominent anti-Kremlin activist Pyotr Verzilov is seriously ill and in hospital, members of the Pussy Riot protest band with whom he collaborated said late on Wednesday, suggesting he may have been poisoned. Verzilov, 30, staged a brief pitch invasion during the soccer World Cup final in Moscow in July along with three women affiliated to the anti-Kremlin punk band and is the publisher of Mediazona, a Russian online news outlet which focuses on human rights violations inside Russia’s penal system. "Our friend, brother, comrade Petr Verzilov is in reanimation. His life is in danger. We think that he was poisoned," Pussy Riot said on its official Twitter feed. Sergei Smirnov, editor-in-chief of Mediazona, struck a more cautious note however, confirming on social media that Verzilov was in hospital but saying nobody knew his diagnosis, making it difficult to understand what was going on. Online news portal Meduza cited Veronika Nikulshina, who it said was Verzilov’s girlfriend, describing how he had been rushed to hospital on Tuesday night after he started to lose his eyesight and ability to talk and walk. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Anyone seen Mark lately? |
| Posted by: Omogum Grumble2942 2018-09-13 19:26 |
| #1 I wonder if CCTV in Moscow caught any suspicious looking Britons? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-13 06:05 |