SARANSK. Nov 22 (Interfax) - U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who is serving her sentence in Correctional Facility No. 2 in Russia's internal republic of Mordovia, has not sent any complaints to Mordovia's Public Monitoring Commission, deputy head of the commission Lyudmila Rezyapkina told Interfax on Tuesday.
"No complaints or reports have been received from her," Rezyapkina said.
Griner's lawyers Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boikov said earlier that the U.S. basketballer sentenced in Russia had begun serving her term at Correctional Facility No. 2 in Mordovia.
The Moscow Region Court in October upheld the sentence of nine years in a general penitentiary given to Griner by the Khimki City Court in the Moscow region in August 2022.
At the same time, the appeals court upheld a motion from the prosecution and recalculated the time spent by Griner in custody, credited to the term of punishment, as a day in a pre-trial detention center for one and a half in a penitentiary instead of a day for a day, as ordered by the lower-tier court. After the time spent in custody was recalculated, Griner will serve about eight years in a penal colony.
The American was found guilty of illegal possession of drugs without intent to distribute and smuggling drugs in large quantities.