United States basketball player Brittney Griner has been moved to a penal colony in Russia’s Mordovia region to serve a nine-year prison sentence for drug possession, her lawyers confirmed, as President Joe Biden’s administration continues to push for her release.Griner’s lawyers said in a statement on Thursday that she was taken to Female Penal Colony IK-2 in the town of Yavas, approximately 500km (300 miles) southeast of Moscow.The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) star was relocated from a detention centre near the Russian capital on November 4. While her lawyers said at that time that she had been moved to a penal colony, her exact whereabouts had been unknown to the public.
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