Moscow ( CNN ) -- Russian authorities said Friday they have decided to move Nadezhda Tolokonnikova , a jailed member of the Russian punk rock collective Pussy Riot , to a different prison . The news came only hours after her husband , Pyotr Verzilov , told CNN that his wife had gone back on a hunger strike to protest being returned to Penal Colony No . 14 , a grim prison camp in Mordovia . Russia 's Federal Service for the Enforcement of Punishments ( FSIN ) has not yet said where Tolokonnikova , who was sentenced to two years after being found guilty of hooliganism , has been taken . One of her relatives will be informed of her new location no later than 10 days after her transfer to the new prison camp , it said . A tweet posted by an art group linked to Verzilov , called Voina , said : `` Flash and micro victory : FSIN reported that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova will be moved to another prison . '' Tolokonnikova , 23 , was sent to Mordovia last year for her part in a performance of a `` punk prayer '' critical of Vladimir Putin -- then the Prime Minister , now the President -- at a Russian Orthodox cathedral . 'Slave labor ' claims in Mordovia prison camp . She now has less than six months left to serve . But on September 23 , she declared the conditions at the prison camp to be intolerable and began a hunger strike . She has been hospitalized since September 27 , when she became so weak that doctors ordered that she be placed in the penal colony 's medical ward . She carried on the hunger strike for four more days and suffered complications because of the length of the protest , her husband said . Verzilov warned then that Tolokonnikova would resume her hunger strike if she was sent back to Penal Colony No . 14 and conditions did not improve . In a lengthy letter last month to the news site Lenta ( a translated version was published in London 's The Guardian ) , Tolokonnikova described `` slave labor '' and unsanitary conditions in which women work through sickness and injury up to 17 hours a day and are beaten -- or worse -- for failing to complete their duties . Tolokonnikova wrote that her life was once threatened and other prisoners tell her she is not beaten only because of the celebrity her case has brought her . Others are not so lucky , she said . Prison authorities told state news agency RIA Novosti then that Tolokonnikova was blackmailing them for denying her request for special treatment . Maria Alyokhina , another convicted member of Pussy Riot , went on a hunger strike earlier this year , protesting conditions in a different remote prison camp . She drew attention and won concessions . CNN 's Alla Eshchenko reported from Moscow and Laura Smith-Spark wrote in London .
NEW : Russian Orthodox authorities decide to move Vladimir Putin to a different prison . Her husband earlier said she had resumed a hunger strike in protest at conditions . She was hospitalized after going on hunger strike for two years . She was sentenced to several days last month in prison for her role in a CNN protest performance .