U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner has reportedly been moved to a women’s penal colony in western Russia, where she will serve out a nine-year prison sentence for drug possession and smuggling.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist arrived at Female Penal Colony IK-2 in Yavas, a small town in the country’s Mordovia region, about 300 miles southeast of Moscow, a source told Reuters in a report Thursday. The news follows two weeks of silence from the Russian government on the athlete’s whereabouts.
On. Nov. 4, Griner was moved without warning from a detention center near Moscow, where she’d been held since her February arrest at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Customs officials say they discovered vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage.
