A member of the Russian feminist group Pussy Riot says she expects Brittney Griner will experience labour camp-type conditions — via TheGrowthOp
note there were 468,237 imprisoned people in the country, including pre-trial detainees and remand prisoners, in 2020.
Alyokhina encouraged Griner’s supporters to keep voicing concern, writing letters and applying pressure to get her home. FILE: US WNBA basketball superstar Brittney Griner looks from inside a defendants’ cage before a hearing at the Khimki Court, outside Moscow on July 26, 2022. /, President Joe Biden said of Griner, “My intention is to get her home,” adding that officials have been engaged in talks on the matter.Article content
“My hope is that now that the election is over that Mr. Putin will be able to discuss with us and be willing to talk more seriously about prisoner exchange,” he said.notes “every minute that Brittney Griner must endure wrongful detention in Russia is a minute too long.” Members of the administration, as directed by the president, plan “to prevail on her Russian captors to improve her treatment and the conditions she may be forced to endure in a penal colony.
Aloykhina’s view is it’s unlikely Griner will receive any special treatment. “It doesn’t matter the citizenship of the prisoner,” she toldAdvertisement 5
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