Doctors say a hospitalized member of protest group Pussy Riot might have been poisoned by an overdose of medicine.
Independent information web site Meduza reported Thursday that Pyotr Verzilov’s medical doctors instructed his relations that he both overdosed on medication or was given an excessive amount of medication. The report didn’t specify the substance.
Fellow Pussy Riot member Veronika Nikulshina instructed The Associated Press that the report was correct however wouldn’t remark additional.
Friends insisted that Verzilov hadn’t been taking drugs or utilizing medication. Verzilov has been hospitalized in Moscow since Tuesday.
Verzilov and different activists served 15-day jail sentences for disrupting July’s World Cup closing to protest extreme Russian police powers.
Speaking to The AP final week, Verzilov stated, “Public protest in Russia is the only way to actually change anything.”
