Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Brittney Griner Transfered to Russian Penal Colony


Last month a Russian court rejected WNBA player Brittney Griner's appeal of her guilty verdict for smuggling THC oil and vape pens into the country [click here if you missed that]. 

Now Griner has been transferred to a forced labor camp...

American basketball player Brittney Griner, jailed in Russia in what the United States calls a wrongful detention, is being moved to a penal colony, her attorneys said Wednesday.
"We do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination," her attorneys, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, said in a statement.
Griner, a center for the Phoenix Mercury WNBA team, was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport in February, after Russian authorities said they found vape canisters with cannabis oil in her luggage.
The 32-year-old was sentenced to nine years in prison in August, and that sentence was upheld by a Russian court in October after Griner's lawyers appealed.