Missing Pussy Riot prisoner Nadezhda Tolokonnikova 'in Siberia hospital' "Convict Tolokonnikova has arrived at the institution of the Russian prison service in the Krasnoyarsk region," the service said in a statement. The news marked the end of several weeks of anxiety for Mr Verzilov, who has picketed the prison service headquarters in Moscow and chased rumours to jails around the country in efforts to find out where his wife is. Mr Verzilov was staking out a prison in Nizhny Ingash, a remote settlement on the Trans Siberian Railway some 200 km from Krasnoyarsk, when he heard the news. He spoke to the Telegraph from the train back to the regional capital on Thursday afternoon. She is ok. She said the conditions in this hospital are adequate and she is being treated for some health complications that developed in her previous place of detention," he said by telephone. He hopes to be allowed to visit his wife on Friday, he added. Relatives last heard from Ms Tolokonnikova on October 18, three days before authorities announced she would be transferred away from prison colony no. 14 in Russia's republic of Mordovia. She has officially been in transit ever since. Russian law does not require authorities to inform relatives of where a prisoner is being held until 10 days after they arrive in a new prison. Ms Tolokonnikova was removed from Prison Colony No. 14 in October after going on hunger strike in protest at appalling conditions and what she claimed were threats from the administration to kill her. Authorities said she was being sent to the vast Krasnoyarsk region, four time zones east of Moscow, because she was born in the Arctic mining town of Norilsk in the region's far north. While her 27-day disappearance raised concern both in Russia and abroad, her experience is not out of the ordinary. Transit between prisons across Russia's vast land mass is an arduous affair involving decades-old prison trains which are hitched onto regular passenger services. But unlike normal trains the prison wagons make regular stops to pick up and drop off prisoners en route, meaning journeys can take days or even weeks. At the end of the ordeal prisoners can expect to spend several days in quarantine as a precaution against the tuberculosis and other diseases that wrack Russia's crowded jails. By comparison the recent transfer of 28 Greenpeace activists and 2 freelance journalists from Murmansk to St Petersburg, which took just 27 hours - the same as the regular sleeper service - was unusually quick. Ms Tolokonnikova and her fellow Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina are due to finish their two-year terms for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred in March. A third band member convicted at the same trial, Yekaterina Samutsevich, is serving a suspended sentence.