Brittney Griner Transferred to Russian Penal Colony

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🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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After being detained in Russia for 265 days, Brittney Griner is currently in the process of being transferred to a penal colony. Nobody knows where she is, and we might not find out for a while. The transfer comes shortly after U.S. officials were able to meet with Griner in person last week, and it was previously thought that the midterm elections could have been a turning point for Russia to begin negotiations for her release. But now, T.J. Quinn tells us how nobody pretty much knows anything at this point…and he explains what the message is that Russia is trying to send. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, TJ Quinn, it is late at night here on the East Coast.
0:04.4	We happened to have a podcast scheduled with you.
0:07.8	That was an update on the Brittany Griner story.
0:10.5	Heard detainment in Russia now in today, 265.
0:15.5	And just for full disclosure here, we were pretty much done editing this thing.
0:19.5	The episode was ready to go.
0:20.8	And then you called with some pretty important breaking news here.
0:24.6	So what is it?
0:26.9	The news is Brittany Griner is in the process of being transferred to a penal colony.
0:32.8	This is something that her family had been dreading.
0:35.1	She was sentenced to one, to serve her nine-year sentence in one back in August when she
0:40.6	was convicted.
0:41.8	But she'd been kept in the Moscow jail where she's been for the last eight months pending
0:46.6	her appeal.
0:48.1	That appeal came and went on October 25th.
0:51.5	But her lawyers only found out today that she was moved on November 4th on Friday, the
0:58.1	day after US officials saw her.
1:00.9	They don't know where she is.
1:02.2	They don't know where she's going, which is not unusual for someone in Brittany Griner's
1:06.8	situation.
1:08.2	And it's possible they won't know for, it could be a week, it could be several weeks until
1:14.3	she arrives wherever she's going.
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