MOSCOW (AP) — The jailed American basketball celebrity Brittney Griner has been moved to a penal colony in Russia, her prison group mentioned Wednesday.
“Brittney was once transferred from the detention heart in Iksha at the 4th November. She is now on her solution to a penal colony. We wouldn’t have any knowledge on her precise present location or her ultimate vacation spot,” the commentary from her prison group mentioned.
White Area Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned, “Each and every minute that Brittney Griner should undergo wrongful detention in Russia is a minute too lengthy. Because the Management continues to paintings tirelessly to safe her unlock, the President has directed the Management to be triumphant on her Russian captors to make stronger her remedy and the prerequisites she could also be pressured to undergo in a penal colony. As we’ve mentioned ahead of, the U.S. Govt made an important be offering to the Russians to unravel the present unacceptable and wrongful detentions of Americans. ”
Griner, an eight-time all-star heart with the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was once convicted Aug. 4 after police mentioned they discovered vape canisters containing hashish oil in her baggage at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
Griner admitted that she had the canisters in her baggage, however testified that she had inadvertently packed them in haste and that she had no felony intent. Her protection group offered written statements that she were prescribed hashish to regard ache.