Posted on 11/09/2022 1:37:39 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Russia is moving detained U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner to a penal colony, her lawyers said Wednesday, drawing a sharp rebuke from the White House.
Griner, convicted for possession of a small quantity of cannabis oil and given a nine-year prison sentence, was transferred out of a detention center on Nov. 4, her legal team said.
She "is now on her way to a penal colony," lawyers Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov said in a statement.
They said Russia generally sends notifications of transforming prisoners by mail, taking up to two weeks. "We do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination," they said.
Griner's case has drawn outrage in the United States, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaching out to Russia to propose a deal to free her despite soaring tensions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
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Once the midterms are behind us, Pedojoe has no need of freeing Brittany until 2024 when his animatronic replica runs for re-election.
She knew her smoking was illegal. She hates America and white Americans. There are hundreds of other Americans in similar circumstances all over the world.
None of team mates gave a meaningful amount 3 money to help her. The women’s NBA did nothing. Her only friends are political allies....
She’s no problem for the Russians - they’ll just keep her in Siberia somewhere.
She’s worth more to them than you think.
Oh she really won’t like that. Perhaps she has some Solzhenitsyn to read to pass her time
She voted for Newsome
I guess she turned down the offer from Wagner to go fight in Ukraine.
She don’t like them
I love happy news!!
She's going to learn, if she hasn't already, that the only way she will survive Russian prison will be to keep the guards very happy.
LOL!
Physical contact with her wouldn't be of interest.
perhaps she.he.it will be educated
The Russians might let her serve her time in a US facility under a special US/RF treaty if she and the US waive appeals and say a $100 million performance bond was posted.
A) She is a stupid and unpleasant person.
B) She is an American
The combination of these two factors made Russia to put her in gulag for 9 years for having $20 dollars worth of weed.
It’s not a usual court practice there for tiny amounts of weed.
You think there are lots of supermodels at isolated Russian prisons?
She might just be the prettiest one there.
...including the United States. Why should she get any special treatment when there are Americans sitting in prison cells in this country for less?
Kamala Harris laughed when commenting on how many people she locked up for marijuana possession as a prosecutor in California. Laughed.
No. This one is stupid. If she were released immediately, she would go right back to hating America. (Not that she ever stopped...)
>there are Americans sitting in prison cells in this country for less?
This is a leftist myth. She had $20 worth of weed on her. She got 9 years. This NEVER happens in America.
The newspaper articles claiming it does are always lying omitting things like the person was on parole for murder or there was another heinous crime and the article just focuses on weed.
You are correct. If released, she would hate America for making her wait so long, and would characterize the lack of interest in getting her sprung as an example of racism.
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