On November 9, Britney Griner’s attorney shared troubling news about the athlete’s Russian sentence. In a statement to CNN, attorneys Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, revealed that the WBNA player was being transferred to a penal colony. “We do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination,” Griner’s attorney said. Now, the basketball star’s whereabouts have been revealed, and she is reportedly being held miles away from where she was initially detained.
On November 17, Griner’s lawyers revealed to Reuters that the athlete had been transferred to a penal colony located nearly 300 miles away from Moscow. “We can confirm that Brittney began serving her sentence at IK-2 in Mordovia. We visited her early this week,” attorneys Blagovolina and Boikov said in a statement. Per the outlet, the penal colony is located in a city called Yavas. The attorneys went on to add that Griner is doing “well,” but admitted that she was “trying to stay strong” amid her ongoing legal debacle.
“The View” host Ana Navarro was rather blunt in her take on the situation. “F***ers,” she tweeted in response.
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