PUSSY RIOT MEMBER BACK FROM POISONING ‘BLACK HOLE’
A Russian-Canadian member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot said Tuesday he’s recovering after two weeks in intensive care for a suspected poisoning while a fellow activist suggested he could have been targeted for looking into the killings of Russian journalists in Africa.
Pyotr Verzilov, at Berlin’s Charite hospital, tweeted that he only fully regained consciousness three days ago after being in a “black hole” for the previous 12 days. He added that he was “spending days in the great company of wonderful poisons.”
German doctors say reports he was poisoned are “highly plausible,” but stressed they can’t say how it might have occurred.
Verzilov and three other Pussy Riot members spent 15 days in jail for running onto field during the World Cup final to protest Russian police brutality. Another Pussy Riot activist, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, said she believes Verzilov could have been poisoned because of his activism or his investigation into the killing of three Russian journalists in Central African Republic in July.