“ Austere and surreal “. So Brittney Griner describes her ten months in a Russian prison. The American basketball player announced on her Instagram account that she is publishing her memoirs on the horizon of 2024, which will tell ” the terrifying aspects of everyday life ” in prison.
Arrested on 27 February 2022 for possession of cannabis oil, the lesbian figure spent ten months in a Russian prison before being exchanged last December with Viktor Bout, a dangerous arms dealer dear to the Kremlin following negotiations between the Russian government and the American one.
” The main reason I went to Russia for my job that day was to make my wife, family and teammates proud. ”, she said. It describes an arrest that was for her” the beginning of an unimaginable period of my lifewhich I wasn’t ready to talk about until then “.
Sentenced to nine years in prison
And for good reason, last August, she had been sentenced to nine years in prison then, after her appeal was rejected, she was transferred in November to a penal colony in central Russia.
His memoirs, which have already found a publisher, will be published by Penguin Random House in the United States and it should also take the form of an audio book.
” I hope this book lifts the veil on the fate of Americans wrongfully detained abroad. “, commented the author.
Source: Madmoizelle
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