This is scary - nobody knows her location. All this over cannabis oil??!
American basketball player Brittney Griner, jailed in Russia in what the U.S. calls a wrongful detention, is being moved to a penal colony, her attorneys said Wednesday.
"We do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination," her attorneys, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, said in a statement.
This whole situation is terrifying. I pray for her and her loved ones.
The punishment is obviously completely disproportionate and unjust, but I will never understand people that go to foreign countries and ignore the plainly communicated laws of the land. Rough as it sounds, ‘fuck around and find out’ applies here.
russia does this always, paint any random citizen for drug use and try to pressure for prison exchange in this case they want a pilot and army dealer who was inspo for lord of war. You can look for israeli woman who was arested for drugs but Israeli gov made extradition to us anyway of a criminal.
They obviously still operate on a authoritarian standpoint towards non compliance. Countries that adopted communist ideology still suffer decades later. That's just the reality of the
Omg! How scary. It's like they want to make an example out of her.