Posted on 11/17/2022 4:11:40 PM PST by RummyChick
Imprisoned American basketball star Brittney Griner has reportedly been taken to a penal colony in Mordovia, a Russian region roughly 300 miles southeast of Moscow, to serve her nine-year sentence on drug charges.
Griner has been moved to IK-2 in Yavas, one of several penal colonies in the region, according to Reuters.
The WNBA All-Star's legal team confirmed the report on Thursday afternoon.
'We can confirm that Brittney began serving her sentence at IK-2 in Mordovia,' read her attorneys' statement. 'We visited her early this week. Brittney is doing as well as could be expected and trying to stay strong as she adapts to a new environment. Considering that this is a very challenging period for her, there will be no further comments from us.'
A State Department Spokesperson declined to confirm the Reuters report earlier, telling DailyMail.com that Russia has refused to share any details with the US Embassy.
'We are aware of reports of her location, and in frequent contact with Ms. Griner's legal team,' a State Department spokesperson wrote in an email to DailyMail.com. 'However, the Russian Federation has still failed to provide any official notification for such a move of a US citizen, which we strongly protest. The Embassy has continued to press for more information about her transfer and current location.'
Griner was sentenced in August following her February arrest at an airport in Moscow, when Russian authorities say she was caught entering the country with vape cartridges containing cannabis oil. She had been at a detention center near Moscow until November 4, when she was moved to an undisclosed prison.
It has been two weeks since any information about her whereabouts have surfaced.
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from twitter:
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@RealCandaceO
Candace, Russia did not change their drug policy for Brittany Griner and I defer to Breitbarts story about this. I’m Australian and every few years an Aussie gets caught trying to smuggle weed into Indonesia via Bali. They get the death penalty and Australia has no say in it.
Oh well Obama was right, elections have consequences.
> She is a human being and I would not wish what she is going through on anyone. <
I kinda agree with you. It would be one thing if she deliberately tried to smuggle a kilo of heroin into Russia. But from what I could gather, she had a small amount of marijuana oil in her luggage. Did she even know it was there?
Griner is a stupid and shallow person. And I get that you had better know the laws of the country you’re entering. But the misery she will now endure just doesn’t seem to fit the crime she committed. Like I just said, it wasn’t a kilo of heroin.
“She will appreciate the US when she gets home. We should get her out of there. She is a pawn in this war.”
NO and NO and NO.
End of story.
She was leaving, not entering.
Do the crime, do the time.
Now that the election is over, she’ll be forgotten.
The funny thing is, she wont learn a thing from this. She’ll be released early, when the Ukraine war is over, she’ll come back and start trashing the U.S all over again.
she was caught entering the country with vape cartridges containing cannabis oil.
I dont know how Bali views Vape pens but if you have weed you can get 10 years. Death if they think you are trafficking it.
I wonder what the Russian prison warden would charge us to play the American national anthem over the prison PA system about once a day for the length of her stay.
Hi.
Hell on earth takes many forms. Depends upon your perspective...
Being a sailor in the battle of Midway or Coral Sea (on either side).
Drug addiction. Think about it...
A Turkish prison in Istanbul.
The Hanoi Hilton.
Khe Sahn for a month in ‘68.
I wish Ms. Griner the best of luck.
5.56mm
So when we say, “I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy,” we don’t really mean it. I choose to be better.
That only every perverted, America hating leftist suffer such a fate, nay one twice as long.
Wonder if they have room for any more Amerikans?
That is nice to hear.
She got herself into this. She can get herself out.
You know what that is called? Tough love.
I had a co-worker who had his uncle executed for some small amount in Singapore.
Crazy, but so is Dubai, I remember some English DJ got a few years for a small piece of a leaf on the sole of the shoe.
He should fit in well there.
Good...she is learning a trade.
My “Give A Damn” meter is stuck on zero.
Trump would have had her ass back home long ago.
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