Major Lesson As Brittney Griner’s Team Files Appeal To Escape Russian Gulag – CNN Denies Running Story That A DNA Test To Determine Her Gender Was Done!
The legal team representing the convicted American female basketball superstar Brittney Griner has recently disclosed that they have appealed to have her conviction overturned. This is in a bid to avoid having the WNBA star being sent to a Russian penal colony to carry out her sentence.
According to reports, Brittney will be sent to one of these colonies if the appeal fails, which will be one of the worst things that could ever happen to the American two-time Olympic gold medalist.
The legal team representing the convicted American female basketball superstar Brittney Griner has recently disclosed that they have appealed to have her conviction overturned.
Also known as “Gulags” and direct remnants of the defunct USSR’s Gulag system, these penal colonies are alleged prison labor camps that are also allegedly notorious for corruption and wild human rights abuses.
Many of these Gulags are also reportedly renowned as “disease incubators where human rights abuses run rampant,” and the American basketball star looks all but set to be sent to one of the many all-female penal colonies in Russia.
Recall that Brittney was sentenced to nine-and-a-half years in prison after she was arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport for having two vape cartridges containing hash oil and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis.
A Russian court in Khimki, Moscow, Russia, eventually found her guilty of smuggling and storing narcotics and passed a sentence on August 4, 2022.
Brittney and her legal team are seeking to avoid having the WNBA star being sent to a Russian penal colony to carry out her sentence.
Besides the appeal, which has been lodged and awaiting a hearing, Brittney’s only hope of escaping time in a Russian Gulag would be the successful negotiations for a prisoner exchange between Russia and the USA. Still, there has been no official word from either side on this lately.
In related developments, famous media giant CNN has denounced and distanced itself from a picture that recently went viral online because it corroborated a false report with the media house’s logo on it.
According to reports, “The image shows a CNN logo in the lower right-hand corner. On the right, Griner is pictured near what appears to be the metal bars of a holding cell. CNN news anchor Lynda Kinkade is shown on the left, apparently mid-sentence.
In related developments, famous media giant CNN has also distanced itself from her picture and a false report that recently went viral online.
A chyron extending across the bottom of both images reads: ‘DNA test ordered by officials to determine male or female prison.’”
However, according to CNN spokesperson Sydney Baldwin: “This is a fabricated image and did not ever air on CNN.”
An important lesson we can all learn from Brittney’s recent developments is that nothing is ever as it seems in life; hence we must investigate matters and events thoroughly before running with them, no matter who is allegedly reporting it.
Things are often fabricated against others by unscrupulous people with twisted agendas they’re trying to push. This is why we must learn to verify things properly before believing or spreading them so that we don’t become roped into the culprits’ web of lies and deception.
A Russian court in Khimki, Moscow, Russia, found Brittney guilty of smuggling and storing narcotics and sentenced her to prison on August 4, 2022.
We can confirm that Brittney will be spending time at an all-female Gulag if the Russian court rejects her appeal and the prisoner swap deal falls through. More updates about her appeal will also be brought to you as things unfold.
