Brittney Griner's Appeal Rejected by Russian Court

Brittney Griner's lawyers person confirmed she is being moved to a remote, unspecified area.
 
Although the WNBA star's squad has shared that she is being transported to a Russian penal colony amid her nine-year situation sentence, they besides corroborate they don't person immoderate different details speech from the decision.
 
"Brittney was transferred from the detention halfway successful Iksha connected the 4th November," her attorneys, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, told E! News successful a Nov. 9 statement. "She is present connected her mode to a penal colony. We bash not person immoderate accusation connected her nonstop existent determination oregon her last destination."

Griner, who has been successful a Russian situation since February, was arrested astatine Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport for allegedly possessing vape cartridges containing cannabis lipid earlier this year.

In July, Griner pleaded blameworthy to cause charges, but told the tribunal that "there was nary intent," adding that she "didn't privation to interruption the law." One period later, a Russian tribunal recovered Griner blameworthy of cause possession and smuggling, sentencing her to 9 years successful prison. In summation to her sentence, Griner besides received a 1 cardinal ruble good ($16,000) for conscious cause smuggling and possession.