Brittney Griner Faces A Bleak Life In A Russian Penal Colony
Backbreaking manual labor, poor hygiene and lack of access to medical care – these are the conditions awaiting American basketball player Brittney Griner in a Russian penal colony after she lost her appeal last week against a nine-year drug sentence. It’s a world familiar to Maria Alyokhina, a member of the feminist art group Pussy Riot who spent nearly two years in prison for taking part in a 2012 punk protest in a Moscow cathedral against President Vladimir Putin....