American women’s basketball star Brittney Griner, detained in Russia since February, was sentenced in early August to 9 years in prison by a Russian court for drug trafficking. She was transferred to a Russian penal colony on Wednesday, announce her lawyers.
American basketball champion Brittney Griner was released from her prison in Russia on November 4 and is “en route to a penal colony”, according to a statement on Wednesday from her lawyers who have “no information on the whereabouts. it is now exactly nor on its “final destination”.
US President Joe Biden is demanding that Moscow “improve the treatment and conditions that she may be forced to undergo” in this colony, reacted his spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre.
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