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☆ Brittney Griner begins transfer to Russian penal colony, attorneys say
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( Abphillip Rhea Mogul | Rhea Mogul | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
CNN —US women’s basketball star Brittney Griner is in the process of being moved to a Russian penal colony where she is due to serve the remainder of a nine-year drug smuggling sentence that was upheld in late October. Griner “is now on her way to a penal colony,” her attorneys said in a statement to CNN Wednesday. “We do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination,” said attorneys Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov. “In accordance with the standard Russian procedure, the attorneys, as well as the US Embassy, should be notified upon her arrival at her destination. Last month, Griner lost her appeal against a nine-year drug sentence.
☆ Griner faces difficult conditions at Russian penal colony, former prisoners and advocates say
  + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | Phil Mccausland | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +6 min
That the WNBA star, who lost her appeal Tuesday, is a gay Black woman could add unknown variables to a penal system that is known to be remote and harrowing. “Conditions in prisons and detention centers varied but were often harsh and life threatening,” a 2021 State Department report on Russian human rights abuses said. “Russian prisons are grim, even relative to prisons in other countries. Prisoners were used for farming, mining or logging in sparsely populated areas of the country or worked in sweatshop conditions. It can often take weeks for prisoners to arrive at the prisons on prison trucks and specially designed train carriages called Stolypins.
☆ Brittney Griner’s Appeal Denied by Moscow Court
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Ann M. Simmons | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
U.S. women’s basketball star Brittney Griner seen on a video linkup from a detention center at the Moscow Regional Court in August. MOSCOW—A Moscow regional court declined to overrule the drugs conviction of U.S. women’s basketball star Brittney Griner , paving the way for the two-time Olympian to serve nine years in a penal colony for the possession and smuggling of less than a gram of hashish oil. The court hearing Ms. Griner’s appeal on Tuesday had the option of leaving the verdict as it is, reducing the sentence or overruling it and returning it to the lower court where the case was first heard.
☆ Brittney Griner’s Appeal Denied by Russian Court
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Ann M. Simmons | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
MOSCOW—A Moscow regional court upheld the drug conviction of U.S. women’s basketball star Brittney Griner , paving the way for the two-time Olympian to serve nine years in a penal colony for the possession and smuggling of less than a gram of hashish oil. The court hearing Ms. Griner’s appeal on Tuesday had the option of leaving the verdict as it is, reducing the sentence or overruling it and returning it to the lower court where the case was first heard.
☆ Brittney Griner will appeal her case today in Russian court
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Dakin Andone Zahra Ullah | Dakin Andone | Zahra Ullah | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
CNN —Brittney Griner is appealing her verdict in Russian court Tuesday, nearly three months after the US basketball star was convicted of smuggling drugs into the country and sentenced to nine years in prison. Griner’s appeal will be considered in the Moscow Regional Court in a hearing at which her attorneys are expected to argue the verdict was unfair and unjustified under Russian law, they told CNN. The court hearing the appeal can choose to leave Griner’s verdict in place, overrule it and send it back to the lower court, or reduce Griner’s prison term, they said. “Brittney is very strong person and has a champion’s character,” Blagovolina and Boykov told CNN in a written statement ahead of Griner’s appeal. “However, she of course has her highs and lows as she is severely stressed being separated from her loved ones for over eight months.”“She is very nervous waiting for the appeal hearing,” they added.
☆ Brittney Griner's appeal of 9-year sentence denied
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBrittney Griner's appeal of 9-year sentence deniedA Russian court has denied WNBA star Brittney Griner’s appeal of her nine-year sentence on drug charges. Biden has vowed to continue working to secure Griner’s release.
☆ A Brittney Griner Prisoner Trade Could Turn on a Two-for-Two Deal With Russia
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Brittney Griner’s appeal of a nine-year drug sentence will be heard on Tuesday. WASHINGTON—Ahead of Brittney Griner’s Tuesday appeal hearing of a nine-year sentence on drug charges, the women’s basketball star’s hopes of returning soon to the U.S. still hinge on a prisoner exchange, not the legal process. And Griner is not the most important person for closing that deal.
☆ Stephen Curry Appeals for Brittney Griner’s Release
  + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors offered support to Brittney Griner , the American basketball player serving a prison sentence in Russia, saying he hoped everyone was doing their part to bring her home. Mr. Curry, a star shooter, denounced Ms. Griner’s incarceration during his team’s championship ring ceremony. He was the latest high-profile figure to condemn her detention since she was arrested in February at a Moscow airport on suspicion of drug smuggling.
☆ Steph Curry offers support for Griner as WNBA star thanks fans on her birthday
  + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | Chantal Da Silva Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +2 min
Stephen Curry offered fellow basketball star Brittney Griner a high-profile show of support Tuesday, as the WNBA player marked her 32nd birthday behind bars in Russia. Hours after Griner released a message thanking those fighting to get her home, Curry spoke out in the middle of the Golden State Warriors' championship ring ceremony Tuesday. The WNBA star was arrested at a Moscow airport on Feb. 17 after authorities said they found cannabis-infused vape cartridges in her luggage. Griner issued her own statement on her birthday, thanking her supporters for continuing to fight for release. “Thank you everyone for fighting so hard to get me home," Griner said in a statement made through her attorneys, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, who spent time with the WNBA star on her birthday and relayed birthday messages to her.
☆ Brittney Griner's wife says she doesn't know if the WNBA star 'has anything left in her tank'
  + stars: | 2022-10-06 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
Cherelle Griner said her wife, WNBA star Brittney Griner, is being held "hostage" in her first interview since a Russian court sentenced the basketball player to nine years in prison for drug possession in August. "On its face it just seems like my wife is a hostage," Cherelle Griner told "CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King. On that call, Cherelle said, she didn't know if Brittney "has anything left in her tank to continue to wake up every day and be in a place where she has no one." Ahead of her Oct. 25 hearing, Cherelle said Brittney is "at her absolute weakest moment in life now." Brittney Griner, who came to my country for seven, eight years, and helped my country be recognized through sport, paid taxes in my country, helped my country.
☆ With Griner in jail, WNBA players skip Russia in offseason
  + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
Brittney Griner’s highly publicized legal woes in Russia and the country’s invasion of Ukraine has the top WNBA players opting to take their talents elsewhere this offseason. For the past few decades, Russia has been the preferred offseason destination for WNBA players to compete because of the high salaries that can exceed $1 million and the resources and amenities teams offered them. Nearly a dozen WNBA players competed in Russia last winter and none of them are heading back this year. Like Stewart, Vandersloot also isn’t headed back to Russia, choosing to play in Hungary where she obtained citizenship in 2016. The Griner situation also is weighing heavily on the minds of young WNBA players.
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