{"id":1754028,"date":"2022-11-28T15:33:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754028"},"modified":"2022-11-28T15:33:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T20:33:36","slug":"brittney-griner-faces-16-hour-work-days-in-russian-gulag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brittney-griner-faces-16-hour-work-days-in-russian-gulag\/","title":{"rendered":"Brittney Griner Faces 16-Hour Work Days in Russian Gulag"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrittney-griner-faces-16-hour-work-days-in-russian-gulag%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1754028&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>WNBA star Brittney Griner will face 16-hour work days and possible abuse as she serves her nine-year sentence for drug smuggling in one of Russia&#8217;s harshest penal colonies,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/11\/28\/brittney-griner-facing-racism-homophobia-16-hour-work-days-russian-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> TMZ Sports.<\/p>\n<p>After Griner was sentenced in October, Russian officials transferred the athlete to the Mordovia region&#8217;s IK-2 female penal colony, originally built in the 1930s as part of the Stalin-era gulag system. While the prison has improved since then, it is still characterized by brutality and harsh conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prisons in Mordovia are notoriously terrible, even by Russian standards. The prisons there are known for the harsh regimes and human rights violations,&#8221; Olga Zeveleva, a sociologist at the University of Helsinki who specializes in Russian prison conditions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/18\/ik-2-mordovia-harsh-notorious-penal-colony-brittney-griner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has promised to continue negotiating a prisoner swap with Russia, offering convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My intention is to get [Griner] home,&#8221; Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/09\/biden-putin-brittany-griner-release-00066085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> a day after the midterm elections. &#8220;We\u2019ve had a number of discussions so far, and I\u2019m hopeful that now that our election is over, there\u2019s a willingness to negotiate more specifically with us.&#8221; Biden has yet to reach an agreement with Russian president Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Some analysts hope Griner&#8217;s high-profile status will shield her from abuse, Zeveleva said, but others fear Russia&#8217;s war with Ukraine and the United States&#8217; support for Ukraine could make life worse for Griner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In times of war, the rules might be different. \u2026 In any case, she won\u2019t have a pleasant time there,&#8221; Zeveleva said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA star Brittney Griner will face 16-hour work days and possible abuse as she serves her nine-year sentence for drug smuggling in one of Russia&#8217;s harshest penal colonies,\u00a0according to TMZ Sports.<br \/>\nThe post Brittney Griner Faces 16-Hour Work Days in Russian Gulag appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":1743917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}