American basketball star Brittney Griner is being moved to a penal colony in Russia.Â
Grinerâs legal team made the announcement this morning saying, âBrittney was transferred from the detention center in Iksha on the 4th of November. She is now on her way to a penal colony. We do not have any information on her exact current location or her final destination.â
A Russian court rejected her appeal of her nine-year sentence for drug possession last month.Â
Griner, an eight-time all-star center with the WNBAâs Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist, was convicted in August after police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscowâs Sheremetyevo Airport.