A still from Amar Colony. (courtesy: YouTube) Cast: Sangeeta Agrawal, Usha Chauhan, Nimisha Nair Director: Siddharth Chauhan Rating: 4 stars (out of 5) The thwarted urges, secret desires and persistent paranoias of three Shimla women constitute the crux of writer-director Siddharth Chauhan’s first narrative feature Amar Colony, a meticulously crafted film that uses austere means … Read more
US basketball player Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony, her lawyers and agent have said. Griner was transferred to a penal colony in Mordovia, about 210 miles east of Moscow, after a Russian court last month rejected her appeal of her sentence. Her lawyers said … Read more
US basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, looks on inside a defendants’ cage before a court hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 2, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool WNBA star Brittney Griner has been transferred to a penal colony to serve the remainder … Read more
U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was sentenced to nine years in a Russian penal colony in August for drug smuggling, is seen on a screen via a video link from a remand prison during a court hearing to consider an appeal against her sentence, at the Moscow regional court on Oct. 25. Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty … Read more
Imprisoned women wait to be escorted for work at a women’s penal colony outside Orel, Russia on Nov. 30, 2011. Yuri Tutov/AP hide caption toggle caption Yuri Tutov/AP Imprisoned women wait to be escorted for work at a women’s penal colony outside Orel, Russia on Nov. 30, 2011. Yuri Tutov/AP MOSCOW — This week, lawyers … Read more
A Russian court rejected an appeal of Brittney Griner’s nine-year sentence last month A Russian court rejected an appeal of Brittney Griner’s nine-year sentence last month American basketball star Brittney Griner has been sent to a penal colony in Russia to serve her sentence for drug possession, her legal team said Wednesday. A Russian court … Read more
U.S. WNBA basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, sits inside a defendants’ cage after the court’s verdict during a hearing in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022. Evgenia Novozhenina/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Evgenia Novozhenina/POOL/AFP via Getty Images … Read more
The jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner has been moved to a penal colony in Russia, her legal team said Wednesday. A Russian court rejected her appeal of her nine-year sentence for drug possession last month. “Brittney was transferred from the detention center in Iksha on the 4th November. She is now on her way … Read more
For the first time in more than a decade, a colony of more than 700 endangered bats has been found in northeast Vermont.The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department confirmed that a summer colony of Indiana bats was located on conservation land in Hinesburg this week. The finding is particularly notable because a surviving summer colony … Read more
In the wake of Queen Elizabeth’s death, Antigua and Barbuda’s prime minister calls for a referendum on becoming a republic The prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda has pledged, if re-elected, to hold a referendum on becoming a republic and removing the British monarch as the Caribbean nation’s head of state. Gaston Browne’s announcement came … Read more