“Brittney is handling the situation as best she can and is trying to hold on to and adapt to the new circumstances,” her lawyers Marija Blagowolin and Alexandr Boikow said on Thursday, according to Interfax news agency. Last Friday it was already known that Griner had been transferred from Moscow to a penal camp. However, the exact whereabouts were not immediately known.
The athlete was arrested at a Moscow airport in February with a small amount of hashish and sentenced to nine years in prison by a Moscow court in early August. A higher court rejected Griner’s appeal in October. The White House says it has made several diplomatic attempts to get the basketball player released.
(SDA)
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