Brittney Griner would possibly perhaps perhaps face racism, homophobia, and 16-hour workdays if the basketball star isn’t launched from the Russian penal complicated where she is being held. In preserving with The Nation, prisoners of the IK-2 penal colony in Mordovia, Russia are barely treated treasure human beings, beatings and torture are “extra special,” and health center treatment “infrequently exists.”
Prisoners are allegedly given jobs that consist of stitching police and militia guard uniforms.
In preserving with TMZ, musician Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding father of the feminist community Pussy Rise up, spent two years in Mordovia and described the penal complicated as “hell.”
Griner’s camp, nonetheless, has tried to stay drag about her destiny and issued an announcement asserting that the basketball star is “doing to boot to will be expected.”
Irrespective of the truth she is on my own and now nearing her ninth month in detention separated from her family, she is attempting to preserve proper.
The U.S. Awaits Response From Russia Regarding Open Proposal
Irrespective of the solemn circumstances, Griner’s crew, aided by the US, has labored diligently in direction of her likely commence. The US has keep forth the proposal of a “prisoner swap” which would consist of the commence of convicted Russian weapons trafficker, Viktor Bout, within the intervening time imprisoned within the US. In preserving with The Guardian, the US is calling forward to a “serious response” from the Russian executive.
Elizabeth Rood, the US chargée d’affaires in Moscow, printed that though discussions between the US and Russia bear been ongoing, Russia has yet to “severely rob.”
The United States, as we bear acknowledged, has keep a serious proposal on the desk. Now we bear adopted up on that proposal and we bear proposed selections.
Sadly, up to now the Russian Federation has no longer equipped a serious response to those proposals.
As The Shade Room has previously reported, Griner was sentenced to attend nine years in penal complicated for tried drug smuggling and possession. A sentence her lawyer says is “an unparalleled punishment.”
