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Brittney Griner begins sentence in remote Russian penal colony

Lawyers say US basketball star ‘doing as well as could be expected’ at IK-2 in Mordovia, following visit

Basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a remote Russian penal colony to start serving her sentence, her lawyers have said.

“Brittney began serving her sentence at IK-2 in Mordovia,” lawyers Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov said in a statement.

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