The 32-year-old sportswoman “is doing as well as possible and is trying to stay strong and adapt to her new environment”, added the lawyers, stressing that their client was going through a “very difficult period”.
His transfer comes after the rejection of his request to appeal following a heavy nine-year prison sentence in August for “drug trafficking”, after his arrest in February at a Moscow airport in possession of a vaporizer containing liquid. based on cannabis oil.
Abuse and acts of torture
His supporters denounce a condemnation to an excessive and politically motivated sentence, with a view to a possible exchange of prisoners between Moscow and Washington, whose relations have been greatly strained in the context of the conflict in Ukraine.
The White House ruled last week that “every minute Brittney Griner has to endure wrongful detention in Russia is a minute too long.”
Penal colony IK-2, Russian abbreviation for “correctional colony number 2”, is located in the town of Iavas in Mordovia and has more than 800 prisoners. Russian penal colonies are notorious for the mistreatment of their inmates, who are crammed into unsanitary barracks and often without access to adequate care.
