As Brittney Griner returned to court in Russia on Tuesday for her drawn-out trial on drug charges, the American basketball star told ABC News she has a message for her wife, Cherelle, who recently graduated from law school. “Good luck on the bar exam,” Griner said. Griner briefly spoke to ABC News during a break in Tuesday’s proceedings at a courthouse in the Moscow suburb of Khimki. When asked whether she has any complaints, she said: “No, no complaints. Just waiting patiently.” She arrived in court that morning holding up two photographs in a clear, plastic sleeve. When asked during the break who was in the photos, she told ABC News: “My wife. My two best friends, my teammates.”
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Yet when it has come to Brittney …
Yet when it has come to Brittney Griner, the W.N.B.A. star who has been detained in Russia since February, the N.B.A.’s teams have been mostly absent from the public campaign for her release. The N.B.A. founded the W.N.B.A. and still owns about half of it, but the N.B.A. has been relatively muted outside of news conferences as Griner’s family, her agent and the women’s league and its players have led the public push for her freedom. N.B.A. players have also shown support. Officials in both leagues said they had stayed quiet at first at the urging of U.S. government officials who worried that publicizing the case would backfire and jeopardize Griner even further. But even after the U.S. State Department said that it had determined she had been “wrongfully detained” and government officials began regularly speaking about Griner, the N.B.A. and team owners remained mostly quiet, fueling sentiments that the case has not gotten the kind of spotlight Griner’s supporters have demanded.
In a trailer for an upcoming episode 5 …
In a trailer for an upcoming episode 5 of his HBO show “The Shop,” LeBron James said if he was in Brittney Griner’s situation, he would have doubts about wanting to return to the U.S. after being a detainee in Russia. “Over 110 days, now how could she feel like America has her back?” James said. “I would be feeling like, ‘Do I even want to go back to America?’ “
Oklahoma City Thunder star rookie Chet …
Oklahoma City Thunder star rookie Chet Holmgren is calling for the safe return of detained WNBA player Brittney Griner. “I definitely think that Brittany Griner should be home right now,” Holmgren, 20, tells PEOPLE on his first day at NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.
“Yeah…I’ve been following, seeing the …
“Yeah…I’ve been following, seeing the situation evolve,” says Holmgren. “It’s a terrible situation, it’s just a terrible situation all around.” “There’s a sense of helplessness on my end,” he continues. “And I’m sure that many other people are feeling that too right now.”
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Caso de Brittney Griner se complica, se declara culpable por cargos de drogas en Rusia
La jugadora de basquetbol Brittney Griner se declaró culpable de los casos de tráfico de drogas que le imputaron en Rusia donde está detenida desde el mes de febrero.
La jugadora de basquetbol Brittney Griner se declaró culpable de los casos de tráfico de drogas que le imputaron en Rusia donde está detenida desde el mes de febrero.
El caso ya se tornó político en medio de fuertes tensiones entre Washington y Moscú donde hasta para el presidente Joe Biden es prioridad la liberación de la estrella del baloncesto y los rusos solicitan un intercambio por un traficante de armas ruso.
Griner fue detenida en posesión de un líquido para vapear a base de cannabis y se le acusó de tráfico y posesión a lo que la jugadora se declaró culpable este jueves en un audiencia donde aseguró que no lo hizo con intención de violar las leyes rusas.
Rusia propone intercambio muy cuestionable por la opinión pública de Estados Unidos
La jugadora se expone a una condena de 10 años de cárcel y según información vertida el gobierno de Rusia solicitó un intercambio de Brittney Griner por el traficante de armas ruso Viktor Bout, detenido en 2008 tras un operativo para detenerlo y procesarlo pues conocido como uno de los mercaderes de armamento más grandes del mundo.
Según el abogado del también llamado “Mercader de la muerte”, Steve Zissou, el Kremlin tiene intenciones de intercambiarlo por la basquetbolista, algo que divide mucho la opinión en Estados Unidos pues Bout fue detenido cometiendo un delito grave y la sentencia de Griner es considerada polémica y más un secuestro de parte del gobierno ruso.
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Detained WNBA star Brittney Griner …
Detained WNBA star Brittney Griner pleaded guilty on Thursday to bringing hashish oil into Russia, telling a judge that she had done so “inadvertently” while asking the court for mercy. The move is not expected to end her trial in Khimki, Russia, anytime soon. Even with a guilty plea in Russian criminal courts, the judge will continue to read the full case file into the record and it could still go on for weeks or months.
Griner, who was detained in February at …
Griner, who was detained in February at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on Feb. 17, told the court that she packed the vape cartridges accidentally and did not intend to break Russian law. “I’d like to plead guilty, your honor. But there was no intent. I didn’t want to break the law,” Griner told the judge in English, which was then translated into Russian for the court.
U.S. officials and Russia experts have …
U.S. officials and Russia experts have described the trial, which was in its second day, as “theater,” with a guilty verdict seen as a foregone conclusion. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned Thursday that “attempts by the American side to make noise in public … don’t help the practical settlement of issues.” The White House said President Joe Biden called Griner’s wife on Wednesday to assure her that he’s doing all he can to obtain the athlete’s release, as soon as possible. They spoke after Biden read a letter from Griner in which she said she feared she’d never return home.