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https://www.wsj.com/articles/brittney-griner-has-begun-serving-nine-year-sentence-at-a-russian-penal-colony-11668722699
The development dashed hopes that the American basketball star was being moved with an eye to imminently being freed
MOSCOW—U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year drug conviction at a Russian penal colony notorious for its tough and unsanitary conditions, in a development likely to intensify urgency around calls for her release.
Ms. Griner’s legal team said Thursday that the two-time Olympian was at the IK-2 female penal colony in Mordovia, around 300 miles southeast of Moscow, where they visited her earlier this week.
