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    U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a Russian penal colony

    by Charles Maynes Nov 09, 2022 2 minutes
    U.S. WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, sits inside a defendants' cage after the court's verdict during a hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, on Aug. 4, 2022.

    Jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner has been moved from a detention center outside of Moscow and is being sent to a Russian penal colony to begin serving out her nine-year sentence on drug smuggling charges, her lawyers said Wednesday.

    A statement released by Griner's legal

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