Editorial: Don't forget about Brittney Griner (via latimesopinion)
U.S women’s basketball star Brittney Griner was taken to a Russian penal colony this week to serve out the rest of a nine-year sentence on drug possession charges. We don’t know which one. Griner’s lawyers said they weren’t told of the transfer and
she’ll be imprisoned until she arrives. But it’s likely it will be as horrible an experience as it sounds., a member of the feminist art and performance collective Pussy Riot, who spent nearly two years in a colony. These are forced labor camps with people stuffed into barracks, rather than cells, and with few toilets and no hot water.that inmates are not allowed to read, write or communicate with one another and are forced to work long hours.
The transfer is a good reminder that Griner, whom the U.S. considers “wrongfully detained,” should be released. On Wednesday, President Biden said he has kept in contact with Griner’s wife and is hoping that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be more receptive to a prisoner exchange now that the election is over. “I am determined to get her home and get her home safely, along with others, I might add,” Biden said. We hope so.
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