Volume 2 Issue 2
October 2022
GIRLY TIMEZ A GirlyTingz United Brandz Publication | GirlyTingzonly@gmail.com Brittney Griner appeal of drug & smuggling charges to be heard by Russian court
Photo courtesy of ESPN online Though admittedly not a priority to the Russian government, courts have agreed to hear the appeal of American athlete Brittney Griner October 25. The former WBA player was found guilty of smuggling “hashish oil” internationally after a stretch in a Russian jail this summer. She was sentenced to 9 years originally.
Photographed by Luis Alberto Rodriguez. Styled by Gabriela KarefaJohnson for Vogue
Serena Williams retires from tennis
Th e H o u s t o n Tex a s n at i v e recently celebrated an 32nd birthday while incarcerated. News of the court’s grace came shortly after.
The terms are “complicated” but they are her own. The fo owing is an excerpt of what the athlete shares in August’s American Vogue. As told by Rob Haske .
Layers of the center position player offered to supply a basketball to help Griner pass time.
This morning, my daughter, Olympia, who turns ve this month, and I were on our way to get her a new passport before a trip to Europe. We’re in my car, and she’s holding my phone, using an interactive educational app she likes. This robot voice asks her a question: What do you want to be when you grow up? She doesn’t know I’m listening, but I can hear the answer she whispers into the phone. She says, “I want to be a big sister.”
“She said, ‘Maybe if I’m here longer, but not now,'” one of Griner‘s attorneys, Maria Blagovolina, said from Moscow on Wednesday to ESPN.
Link to the full article at Vogue.com with exclusive photos and other content here
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