A Russian court has denied parole to a jailed member of the Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot. Maria Alyokhina announced this week she was going on hunger strike after she was barred from attending her own parole hearing. Fellow group member Nadia Tolokonnikova was also denied parole last month. Both women are serving two-year sentences in remote penal colonies for the group’s protest against Russian leader Vladimir Putin in an Orthodox cathedral last year.