Posted on 11/12/2022 8:41:03 AM PST by xp38
A member of the Russian feminist group Pussy Riot, who spent almost two years in a penal colony, says she expects WNBA star Brittney Griner will experience labour camp-type conditions as she arrives at an unnamed facility where she could potentially spend the next nine years.In an interview with
National Public Radio, Maria Alyokhina of the Moscow-based feminist protest and performance art group said Griner should expect forced labour, living in barracks with beds for 80 to 100 women, bathing once a week and having very few, if any, amenities.
“For 100 women, there are like three toilets and no hot water,” Alyokhina told NPR, which reached her while on tour in the U.K. “This is a really terrible institution which we received from [the] Soviet Union and it’s totally inhuman,” she said. “The cynical thing is, the work the state provides to the prisoners is sewing uniforms for Russian police and the Russian army,” she claimed.
“This is a legal slavery system. There’s nothing about correction or improvement of people’s behaviour,” she told NPR.
In 2012, Alyokhina was convicted of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred in connection with a protest performance in a church. She received the minimum two-year sentence for the offence, NPR reported at the time.
Figures for Russian incarceration note there were 468,237 imprisoned people in the country, including pre-trial detainees and remand prisoners, in 2020.
Alyokhina encouraged Griner’s supporters to keep voicing concern, writing letters and applying pressure to get her home. At a recent press conference, President Joe Biden said of Griner, “My intention is to get her home,” adding that officials have been engaged in talks on the matter.
Advertisement 4 Article content “My hope is that now that the election is over that Mr. Putin will be able to discuss with us and be willing to talk more seriously about prisoner exchange,” he said.
A statement by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre notes “every minute that Brittney Griner must endure wrongful detention in Russia is a minute too long.” Members of the administration, as directed by the president, plan “to prevail on her Russian captors to improve her treatment and the conditions she may be forced to endure in a penal colony.”
Aloykhina’s view is it’s unlikely Griner will receive any special treatment. “It doesn’t matter the citizenship of the prisoner,” she told NPR, advising the basketball player “to not forget yourself and not lose your freedom.”
This past February, the basketball star was arrested for travelling with a cannabis vape cartridge in her luggage. In August, Griner was sentenced, as well as ordered to pay almost $21,000, after being found guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into the country, according to Reuters.
Although possessing more than seven grams of cannabis could result in up to two years of “corrective labour,” Reason reports, Russian authorities claimed the basketball star had smuggled a “significant amount” of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years.
ESPN noted this week the transfer to the penal colony took Griner’s lawyers and family, as well as U.S. government officials, by surprise.
Her lawyers noted in a statement to CNN on Nov. 9 that “we do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination,” adding that the standard Russian procedure is to notify by mail the defendant’s attorneys and the U.S. Embassy upon arriving at the destination.
If Griner is still alive by then. There was a thread a while ago where it was stated that going to these penal colonies is very often a death sentence. Many don’t survive them.
Nah....she will likely die or commit suicide before she’s released.
That was another outcome that former prisoners have said is quite possible.
Well she’s a guy sooo......more importantly, how is that dog walking on the water?!?
Wonder if, when and if she gets out she will write a book
“ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF Brittney Griner”
And compare it with “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
I feel bad for Pussy Riot.
If they lived in L.A., they’d be wealthy celebrities
I can only imagine what the other female prisoners thought when She introduced Herself: “Hello, hello, I’m here for two years, and I’m a Pussy Riot!”.
Nothing like a little stint in a gulag to get one’s mind right.
I still don’t think that Griner has female DNA:
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I don’t either. However, the only thing that gives me pause, is that Russia hasn’t said anything about it.
If she were a true man, in everyway, I’m sure they would have put her in the men’s prison. They don’t play that game.
Maybe Russia is just trying to throw Biden a bone. ;)
I think you are being a bit optimistic here.
“This is a legal slavery system. There’s nothing about correction or improvement of people’s behaviour,” she told NPR.
I’d think prison would be something so awful you’d never want to go there again.
In spite of this unacceptable and criminal activity, Pussy Riot was not additionally punished, on the contrary, Putin commuted their sentences and released them from prison and Russia, a year early.
Griner broke the law & now pays the price. It was a Russian law, but that’s where she wanted to be, wasn’t it?
I was hoping it would be hard labor
She’s a slow learner
“Pussy Riot” were a standard Soros/CIA/globalist demoralization and propaganda campaign
They were, ostensibly, a “collective” group of musicians and street performers, using lesbian/vulgar/sexualized lyrics and behavior, we all would recognize in our own “entertainment.”
No one in Russia knew of them, or listened to their “music”
Their main stunt was to invade the Cathedral of Christ the Savior (which was, ironically destroyed in 1931 by the Communists and rebuilt in 1995) and do a “performance” which shocked and insulted all Russian Orthodox Christians.
Of course, their arrest was simultaneously picked-up and promoted by every western MSM media outlet and NGO and promoted as a “Putin Crackdown” on free speech.
And, of course, 10 years later, controlled deep-state media in the West are still using Pussy Riot as propaganda fodder
“Griner should expect forced labour, living in barracks with beds for 80 to 100 women, bathing once a week and having very few, if any, amenities.”
Still has to be better than living in a RACIST country where the police kill black people for sport, at least in her twisted mind.
she doesn’t have breasts?
Is she a boy?
The past few days have been tough—but for some reason this thread has me smiling from ear to ear...
;-)
“That’s one way to learn the Russian language.”
I’ve always said that prison is the best way to learn a language and she’s probably pretty good at it. The problem is when there’s only one major country with the language...since she’ll be deported and banned from entry after her sentence.
Absolutely!
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