AP/ November 23, 2012, 10:53 AM

Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina moved to solitary cell in Russia prison

Maria Alekhina, one of the jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot has been moved into a solitary cell following tensions with inmates. / AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev

MOSCOW Russian prison officials say one of the jailed members of the punk band Pussy Riot has been moved into a solitary cell following tensions with other inmates.

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Federal Penitentiary Service spokesman Stanislav Volegov said on Rain TV Friday that Maria Alekhina was moved into a "safe" cell at her own request. Other prison officials said, according to Russian news wires, that Alekhina made the request over her perception that fellow prisoners had a negative attitude to her.

Alekhina and two other band members, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were sentenced in August to two years in prison on hooliganism charges for performing a "punk prayer" against President Vladimir Putin at Moscow's main cathedral. Samutsevich was released on appeal, but Tolokonnikova and Alekhina are serving their sentences in prison camps.