"We must distinguish these reasonable concerns from conspiracy theories sparked by Edward Snowden. This man is a traitor who has sought assistance and refuge from some of the world’s most notorious violators of liberty and human rights."
By Gary;
First it was illegal immigration. Now it is Edward Snowden. I am done with Marco Rubio and "Conservatives" like him.
Marco, just shut the fuck up and run for re-election in Florida. Your days of running for President are over for me and most other lovers of the Constitution.
I have had it up to here with these damn Statist Republicans who worship the growth of an unconstitutional 1984 centralized Police State.
On this Blog I have published over 400 news stories on the Police State and 1984 (see story label column on the upper right of this Blog). But bastards like Rubio call me a conspiracy nut for daring to tell the truth. Well, fuck you Marco and you can shove this reply where the sun does not shine.
Both Democrats and Republicans have taken an oath to defend the Constitution, but neither party really gives a damn.
But it gets worse, both parties vote together as a block to fully fund the ever growing Big Brother domestic spy system. They say, "Give us your Liberty and we will protect you."
Marco Rubio had his chance to shine, but he made a decision to cast his lot with Comrade Obama, Eric Holder and the corrupt bi-partisan Ruling Elite of Washington D.C. rather than with the People and Constitutional Liberty.
Marco, it was nice while it lasted. Goodbye.
Unconstitutional Spying Isn't it interesting how huge numbers of so-called "small government" Conservatives lock arm-in-arm with Comrade Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to piss on the Bill of Rights on live TV and protect and fund the bi-partisan 1984 Surveillance Police State.
J.P. Massar holds a sign showing his opposition to the planned Federal "Domain Awareness Center" in Oakland, Calif.,
The Big Brother Police State
"I don't want to live in a city that is testing this giant surveillance system, because I believe it is going to be used to criminalize normal existence."
Oakland Resident at City Council Meeting
1984 is Here - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative. It does not matter. The Ruling Elites of both political parties have joined arm-in-arm to fund and build an unconstitutional and nationwide 1984 Surveillance State spy system.
When the local people dare to protest against their Masters they are slapped down and mocked as "crazy fringe loons" who don't understand what Big Brother is trying to do for them.
Oakland's City Council voted to move ahead with controversial city surveillance center during a raucous council meeting Tuesday morning that only ended when the police cleared out the chambers.
The council voted 6-1 to approve an incremental resolution allowing the city to hire a new contractor to assemble the Domain Awareness Center, a surveillance hub that would allow police and city officials to continuously monitor video cameras, gunshot detectors and license-plate readers across the city.
Dozens of Oakland residents, deeply worried the center would allow the city to spy on people's everyday lives, tried to turn the resolution into a referendum on surveillance and persuade council members to stall, or scrap, the process reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
"Nobody in Oakland wants to be monitored 24/7," said Oakland permaculture designer Ryan Rising, 25. "I see it as a pilot program for other cities to build their own surveillance centers."
But the effort didn't seem to change many minds, even as members of the council struggled to discuss the issue over deafening chants of protesters demanding the council delay a decision: "Table it! Table it! Table it!"
"I call to question," Council President Pat Kernighan yelled at her colleagues over the din, indicating it was time to vote. "Can you guys hear me? I call to question!"
Six members of the council approved the resolution in a voice vote. Councilwoman Lynette Gibson McElhaney voted against the resolution, saying later that she had too many unanswered questions about the process of completing the center. Councilman Larry Reid was absent. As forceful chants of "Shame! Shame! Shame!" broke out after the vote, Kernighan asked police to empty the chamber.
At issue is the domain center, a proposed city and port project to link dozens of traffic and surveillance cameras with police and fire dispatch systems, Twitter feeds, crime maps, gunshot-detecting microphones and alarm programs.
City officials say the center, which will eventually cost $10.9 million in federal grants, would allow authorities to improve their response to crime, terrorism, earthquakes, fires or hazardous materials incidents.
Once it is operational in July 2014, the center on Martin Luther King Jr. Way will be monitored 24 hours a day by a police officer, a police analyst and a person from the Port of Oakland.
City officials claimed the center would mostly be used during emergencies (Bullshit) like earthquakes, fires, protests and tsunamis, but many residents were skeptical.
"I don't want to live in a city that is testing this giant surveillance system, because I believe it is going to be used to criminalize normal existence," said Magdalena Kazmierczak, 24, who lives in West Oakland.
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Federally Funded Talking Street Lights
Fully funded by a Democrat Senate and a GOP House.
CIA To Spy On You Through TV, Appliances
Big Brother is Watching You
The Department of Homeland Security is funding the installing of a nationwide spy system of street light microphones and cameras that are capable of listening to conversations in cities throughout the U.S. . The 1984 street lights, now being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh with Department of Energy backing, act as surveillance cameras, Minority Report-style advertising hubs, and Homeland Security alert systems, they are “also capable of recording conversations,” according to a report by ABC 7. . See our other articles.
Everyone in favor of a Police State raise your hand
Drivers along a busy North Fort Worth street on Friday were stopped at police roadblock and directed into a parking lot, where they were asked by federal contractors for samples of their breath, saliva and even blood.
It was part of a government research "study" aimed at determining the number of drunken or drug-impaired drivers.
"It just doesn't seem right that you can be forced off the road when you're not doing anything wrong," said Kim Cope, who said she was on her lunch break when she was forced to pull over at the roadblock on Beach Street reports NBC News Dallas.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which is spending $7.9 million on the survey over three years, said participation was "100 percent voluntary" and anonymous.
But Cope said it didn't feel voluntary to her -- despite signs saying it was.
"I gestured to the guy in front that I just wanted to go straight, but he wouldn't let me and forced me into a parking spot," she said.
Cops collect DNA samples at roadblocks
Both parties in Congress are funding the Obama regime collection of DNA at 60 police checkpoints around the country.
Once parked, she couldn't believe what she was asked next.
"They were asking for cheek swabs," she said. "They would give $10 for that. Also, if you let them take your blood, they would pay you $50 for that."
At the very least, she said, they wanted to test her breath for alcohol.
She said she felt trapped.
"I finally did the Breathalyzer test just because I thought that would be the easiest way to leave," she said, adding she received no money.
Fort Worth police Sgt. Kelly Peel said he could not immediately locate any record of Fort Worth officers being involved in the roadblock but said he was still checking Monday evening.
A spokesman for nearby Haltom City police said his department was not involved.
NBC DFW confirmed that the survey was done by a government contractor, the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, which is based in Calverton, Md.
A company spokeswoman referred questions to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. .
An agency spokeswoman sent an email confirming the government is conducting the surveys in 30 cities across the country in an effort to reduce impaired-driving accidents.
She did not respond to another email from NBC DFW asking specific questions about the program..
. But a Fort Worth attorney who is an expert in civil liberties law questioned whether such stops are constitutional.
"You can't just be pulled over randomly or for no reason," said attorney Frank Colosi.
He also noted the fine print on a form given to drivers informs them their breath was tested by "passive alcohol sensor readings before the consent process has been completed."
"They're essentially lying to you when they say it's completely voluntary, because they're testing you at that moment," Colosi said.
He also questioned the results of the "voluntary" survey -- speculating that drivers who had been drinking or using drugs would be more inclined to simply decline to participate.
Cope said she is troubled by what happened.
"It just doesn't seem right that they should be able to do any of it," she said. "If it's voluntary, it's voluntary, and none of it felt voluntary."
Exposing Internal Checkpoints
Unconstitutional internal Federal checkpoints 100 miles from the Mexico border deep in the state of Texas. The Bill of Rights and the 4th Amendment has no meaning.
Before the end of this year, the unelected National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will decide whether or not to begin the rule making process to mandate that newly manufactured cars include what is being called “vehicle-to-vehicle” (V2V) communications technology that constantly broadcasts via radio wave the car’s location, direction, speed and, possibly, even the number of passengers it is carrying.
NHTSA sees this technology as the first step on a “continuum” of automotive evolution that will ultimately lead to fully automated vehicles navigated by internal electronics linked to external infrastructure, communications and database systems reports CNS News.
The government would the capability to exert increasing control over when, where, if--or for how much additional taxation--people are allowed to go places in individually owned vehicles. It could also give government the ability to track where people go and when.
There would be six components that would be deployed in vehicles equipped with V2V. These included:
a Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) radio that “receives and transmits data through antennae,”
a GPS receiver that “provides vehicle position and time to DSRC radio” and “provides timekeeping signal for applications,”
an “internal communications network” that incorporates the “existing network that interconnects components” in the vehicle,
an electronic control unit that “runs safety applications,”
a driver-vehicle interface that “generates warning[s] issued to driver,”
a memory that “stores security certificates, application data and other information.”
"People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word." George Orwell 1984, Book 1, Chapter 1
Obamacare could create an armed “secret security force”.
During an appearance on the Janet Mefferd Show, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) warned that a provision within Obamacare could create an armed “secret security force”.
Referring to a section of the gargantuan Obamacare law which discusses “the president’s own commissioned and non-commissioned officer corps,” Gohmert drew attention to the notion that under the pretext of a “national emergency,” such individuals could be used to impose some form of medical martial law reports Infowars News.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the Ready Reserve Corps is directed to “assist full-time Commissioned Corps personnel to meet both routine public health and emergency response missions.”
“It says it is for international health crises, but then it doesn’t include the word ‘health’ when it talks about national emergencies,” said Gohmert.
“I’ve asked, what kind of training are they getting….I want to know are they using weapons to train, or are they being taught to use syringes and health care items?” asked the Congressman, adding that “no clear answers” had been forthcoming on the issue.”
Accusing the Department of Homeland Security of being wasteful, Gohmert said the DHS’ commitment to purchase over 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition was concerning because many of the bullets are hollow point rounds which are not traditionally used for target practice.
“I’ve asked Homeland Security what is the reason for that,” said Gohmert, adding that their response “made no sense” but that he would continue to push for an explanation in Congress.
“Some kind of secret security force is something the United States is never supposed to have….but until we get enough members of Congress stirred up over the things I’ve been preaching about then we’re not likely to get answers,” said Gohmert, adding that the only way to get the DHS to properly respond would be to start cutting funding.
Congressman Exposes DHS Buildup for CIVIL UNREST
During an appearance on the Janet Mefferd Show, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) warned that a provision within Obamacare could create an armed “secret security force”.
Police State Too Much? Send in a Marine!
Testimony at the Concord City Council public hearing regarding the acquisition of a BearCat, the "Homeland Security" grant-subsidized armored attack truck. There was this little gem from retired Marine Colonel Pete Martino.
"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster New Hampshire Congressman, U.S. Senator Federalist Party
"Conservative" Supreme Court Justices run for the hills
rather than address unconstitutional 1984 spying.
Why Conservatism???? - One has to ask why Conservatives exist.
The "Conservative" Republican Chief Justice John Roberts rubber stamped Socialist-Fascist Obamacare. And now the Conservative majority Supreme Court has refused to even review the unconstitutional wholesale spying on and recording of billions of American emails, text messages and phone calls.
The GOP says "vote for us so we can appoint Federal Judges." OK. Fair enough. But then lovers of Liberty get screwed over on vital issues by GOP appointed judges.
The Supreme Court announced Monday morning that it would not be considering at this time a complaint filed months earlier that challenged the legality of the National Security Agency’s dragnet telephone surveillance program.
The high court issued a notice early Monday without comment acknowledging that it would not be weighing in on a matter. The issue was introduced this past June by a privacy watchdog group after NSA leaker Edward Snowden revealed evidence showing that the United States intelligence agency was collecting metadata pertaining to the phone calls of millions of American customers of the telecommunications company Verizon on a regular basis reports RT News.
That disclosure — the first of many NSA documents leaked by Mr. Snowden — prompted the Washington, DC-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, to ask the Supreme Court to consider taking action that would end the collection of phone records on a major scale.
When EPIC filed their petition in June, they wrote, “We believe that the NSA’s collection of domestic communications contravenes the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and violates several federal privacy laws, including the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 as amended.”
“We ask the NSA to immediately suspend collection of solely domestic communications pending the competition of a public rulemaking as required by law. We intend to renew our request each week until we receive your response,” EPIC said.
Five months later, though, the Supreme Court said this week that it would not be hearing EPIC’s plea. A document began circulating early Monday in which the high court listed the petition filed by the privacy advocates as denied.
FBI: Cyber Attacks Justify Internet Kill Switch
“It is the height of naivete to think that once collected this information won’t be used. This is the nature of secret government organizations. The only way to protect the people’s privacy is not to allow the government to collect their information in the first place.”
Even Schmidt
Former Commander, East German Stasi
Communist Secret Police
. "We Germans have had to experience the abuse of state power with secret services twice in our history."
A locked file cabinet - Computer theft of government secrets is now solved.
Bullshit Alert
The FBI claims hackers broke into government computers. I say it is all Bullshit and Lies. It never happened.
According to a press release, the FBI says activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed U.S. government computers in multiple agencies and have stolen "sensitive information". Whatever the Hell that means.
The FBI claims the breach affected the U.S. Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and perhaps many more agencies reports Reuters News.
I will say it right here. Right now. The government is lying to us.
The government claims they were hacked, but there is no way for any outsider to prove the truth of that claim. I suspect it is yet another phony statement to make Americans afraid enough to give away their rights to a Police State in return for "security".
I have only two real questions:
Why is this "sensitive information" connected to the Internet in the first place?
Who has been fired for connecting this "sensitive information" to the Internet for any pimple faced 16 years hacker on earth to look at?
But Big Brother will never answer either question because this event never happened.
Lies and Damn Lies The government tells lies about terrorism threats so you will willingly give up your Constitutional rights to a 1984 Big Brother Surveillance State.
Rubber Stamp Justice Secret courts hearing secret "evidence" rubber stamping secret search warrants for the secret police to spy on every American.
Police State - Amazing. The Russians had the gall to claim that they had only "lost" the singer of Pussy Riot for nearly a month while she was being transported to a Siberian Gulag.
Now the jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been located. Contrary to reports Wednesday that she's at a new prison in Siberia, her husband, Peter Verzilov, confirmed to Rolling Stone that she's at a hospital in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk.
He spoke to the jailed activist on Thursday after doctors at the hospital called him from Krasnoyarsk’s Tuberculosis Hospital No. 1, a large medical facility. Russia’s prison service also formally informed him of his wife’s location.
"She was in good condition. She said her conditions were OK," Verzilov said by phone. "She's not sick right now, she’s just having procedures and tests related to the hunger strike." Verzilov added that conditions at the hospital were satisfactory. Although the facility does treat tuberculosis, it functions as an ordinary hospital reports Rolling Stone.
The activist had been missing for 24 days, after she was abruptly moved from a camp in Mordovia, where she had been serving her sentence. She told Verzilov that during the time of her disappearance, she had been kept from having conatct with the outside world throughout her three-week transfer across Russia.
"She said conditions and treatment were OK, but that the one thing was she was in very strict isolation," he said.
It's not yet clear where the activist will serve the rest of her sentence. Verzilov said that a source in the prison service had told him Tolokonnikova may serve her full-sentence at the hospital in Krasnoyarsk. Her defense team had believed she would be moved to a camp in Nizhny Ignash, 150 miles from Krasnoyarsk, but he said that this was no longer certain.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is currently serving a two-year sentence for "premeditated hooliganism" in conjunction with Pussy Riot performances.
Off to a Siberian Gulag Putin is so frightened of a young girl who plays music that he put her in a Siberian Gulag.
Fully funded by the Democrat Senate and the GOP House, the DHS is building a domestic 1984 Police Surveillance State network to spy on every American 24 hours a day without a search warrant.
Liberals pretend to be for the "little guy" while Conservatives pretend to be for "small government". But both sides are frightened to death of a free American people.
(UPDATE - Following a privacy outcry concerning a wi-fi “mesh network” being installed, the Seattle Police Department announced last night that it is temporarily deactivating the network.)
Police State - The Seattle Police have installed a network of 160 wireless "white box" access points that are mounted on poles across the city. Every time a cell phone or other device looks for a Wi-Fi signal the white box recognizes it and stores that data for future use. The network can record the last 1,000 locations of a person using their cellphone’s MAC address.
The network was bought with a Department of Homeland Security grant for $2.6 million reports KIRO 7 TV News.
This is a system that could lead to the permanent tracking of an entire city’s population.
"They now own a piece of equipment that has tracking capabilities so we think that they should be going to City Council and presenting a protocol for the whole network that says they won't be using it for surveillance purposes," said Jamela Debelak of the American Civil Liberties Union.
"We believe that people should be free to move about without having the government track their movements unless there really is reason to believe they're engaged in some criminal activity," said Debelak. Seattle police could not explain why the network appears to be online.
A report by The Stranger, a weekly Seattle newspaper, exposes how the boxes, which are attached to utility poles and include vertical antennae, can track cellphones even if they are not connected to the system’s wi-fi network.
Aruba – the company that provided the boxes to the Seattle Police Department – brags in its technical literature about how the boxes can keep track of “rogue” or “unassociated” devices, in other words your cellphone even if you have refused to let the system access your device’s wi-fi component.
The user’s guide for one of Aruba’s recent software products states: “The wireless network has a wealth of information about unassociated and associated devices.” That software includes “a location engine that calculates associated and unassociated device location every 30 seconds by default… The last 1,000 historical locations are stored for each MAC address.”
When reporters Matt Fikse-Verkerk and Brendan Kiley asked the Seattle Police Department and the Department of Homeland Security to explain what the boxes were for, the DHS refused to comment and Seattle Police detective Monty Moss would only state that the department “is not comfortable answering policy questions when we do not yet have a policy.”
A Federal Court convicted an author of making "false claims" in a book about how to lose weight. (Like that has never happened before.)
The Feds required that the author post a $2 million bond before engaging in future infomercial advertising to sell books.
The Truth Police - First let me say that when I see a Kevin Trudeau infomercial on TV, my first reaction is to get a firm grip on my wallet.
But that being said, since when have the Feds and their courts become the "Truth Police" to judge the honesty of the written word of books for sale? And if the government says they do not believe the contents of your book then you can be put in prison.
No one is forced to buy a book. It is a free transaction between free men. Yes there are suckers born every minute. But if people want to freely spend their own money on books about dieting, turkey farming or alien abductions, it is not the business of Big Brother government to put the authors of those books in jail.
In this case the jurors took less than an hour to find TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau guilty of criminal contempt.
Trudeau was accused of violating a judge's 2004 order barring him from making false claims about his best-selling book, "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About."
Never mind that there are 10,000 diet books out there all contradicting each other.
The 50-year-old showed little emotion when he was convicted Tuesday in federal court in Chicago. He could face years in prisonreports CBS News.
The core dispute revolved around dramatic claims in Trudeau's TV infomercials, including that people who followed the diet in the book could eventually eat anything they wanted without gaining weight.
Prosecutor Marc Krickbaum said Trudeau knew such claims contradicted his book, but he lied to sell more books.
Trudeau's lawyer had argued that prosecutors failed to prove their case.
The Feds will be granting licenses for 7,500 so-called "private" commercial drones to spy on you, record you and store that data forever. The Feds will tap into that information at will.
The 4th Amendment and the Bill of Rights are being abolished.
Like Verizon, AT&T, Google etc. these "private" drone companies will effectively be acting as licensed agents for a centralized 1984 Surveillance Police State and gathering information without search warrants.
The chief of the Federal Aviation Administration said that U.S. airspace could be crowded with as many as 7,500 commercial drones within the next five years.
Welcome to the brave new world of licensed private enterprise Big Brother corporations vacuuming up every last atom of data about you and turning it over to a centralized Big Brother Police State. Search warrants? Those are so 18th century.
The impending boom has raised concerns among privacy advocates about how and where drones might be used to collect data.
Christopher Calabrese, American Civil Liberties Union legislative counsel, told The Washington Times that while the FAA’s requirement for public disclosure of data and retention policies are needed and welcome, the safeguards do not go far enough reports the Washington Times.
“It’s crucial that as we move forward with drone use, those procedural protections are followed by concrete restrictions on how data from drones can be used and how long it can be stored. Congress must also weigh in on areas outside of the FAA’s authority, such as use by law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, which have the ability to use drones for invasive surveillance that must be kept in check,” Calabrese said.
Legislation has been introduced by Sen. Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts Democrat, and Rep. Ted Poe, Texas Republican, and Rep. Zoe Lofgren, California Democrat.
If passed, this legislation would require law enforcement agencies to obtain warrants before using drones to collect surveillance data on U.S. soil. “People are really worried about drone use. You see it in a huge number of state bills and laws, and I think the FAA needs to understand that if they don’t address privacy issues then drones are not going to be a useful technology,” he said. “Privacy can’t be swept under the rug.”
Verizon's New DVR Will Spy On You
Verizon applied for a patent to create a DVR that has cameras and microphones that can see and hear what you're doing and saying, while watching TV. Sounds, actions, food choices, and your ethnicity -- all tracked by the DVR -- will influence what you see in your commercial breaks.
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Take a guess how long it will take for the Feds to tap into the Verizon DVR.
“You are a slow learner, Winston." . "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." . "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.” ― George Orwell, 1984
Concern for jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova mounted on her 24th birthday Thursday, after her husband said she could not be found in the Russian prison colony where authorities reportedly sent her in October.
Tolokonnikova has not been seen since being moved on October 22 after protesting alleged prison abuses at her former colony in central Russia and holding a hunger strike.
Tolokonnikova is one of two Pussy Riot members now serving two-year prison terms for performing a protest "punk prayer" in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral in the run-up to presidential elections last year reports AFP News.
She and fellow bandmember Maria Alyokhina are due for release in March.
Russia's human rights ombudsman said this week that Tolokonnikova was being transferred and was safe. Her husband Pyotr Verzilov believed that she was on her way to a new colony in Siberia.
However having made the trek to the snow-covered Krasnoyarsk region, Verzilov said on Thursday that his wife was not there.
"The authorities of the colony in the taiga (region) told us that they don't have Tolokonnikova and don't know when she will arrive. 19 days without contact with Nadya," he wrote on Twitter.
"Snow, snow, snow, minus 20 degrees (Celsius) and camps where somewhere they are hiding Nadya," he wrote, posting pictures near the colony where Tolokonnikova was said to be headed.
The search in Siberia went on as Tolokonnikova's lawyers submitted legal documents contesting her verdict and sentence made by the Khamovnichesky court in Moscow.
"We are demanding the verdict be annulled," lawyer Irina Khrunova told AFP. She added that her client's transfer could "last a long time" since Russian law does not set any limits on how long its could take.
The big stud Putin gets off on putting little girls in Siberian prison camps.
The conviction and sentencing of Tolokonnikova and Alyokhina on charges of hooliganism sparked an international outcry.
After being jailed, Tolokonnikova penned a letter published in Russian media listing alleged abuses in her old prison colony, including round-the-clock "slave labor" work, beatings, and lack of sanitary facilities.
She went on a hunger strike in protest, ending it only after having health problems and being placed on a drip in the prison hospital.
After that she was transferred, with officials giving no details of her destination.
Her husband, though, said he received information from a reliable source that she was moved to penal colony number 50 in the town of Nizhny Ingash, in Siberia.
Calling for action in Tolokonnikova's case, Amnesty International said this week that "there are serious concerns regarding her safety and wellbeing".
"There are no legal limitations as to how long a prisoner can be in transit," the rights organisation said, calling Tolokonnikova a prisoner of conscience. "The lengthy transit could be a means of pressure and de facto punishment for her recent open letter."
Prison authorities are not required to tell relatives of the convicts' whereabouts until 10 days after transferring them to a new place.
A group of Tolokonnikova's supporters staged fireworks for her birthday near the headquarters of the prison service in Moscow in the early hours of Thursday.
Pussy Riot Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk rock protest group based in Moscow. Their lyrical themes include feminism, LGBT rights, opposition to the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they regard as a dictator, and links between the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church and Putin. . Two of the group members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, were arrested and charged with hooliganism. They were convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”, and each was sentenced to two years imprisonment. Two other members of the group left Russia fearing prosecution. . The case was adopted by human rights groups including Amnesty International, which designated the women prisoners of conscience, and by a wide range of musicians including Madonna, Courtney Love, Sting, and Yoko Ono. Public opinion in Russia was generally less sympathetic towards the women. . Putin stated that the band had "undermined the moral foundations" of the nation and "got what they asked for". See more at Pussy Riot.
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