White House Statement: Brittney Griner shouldn’t have had to endure trial, White House says

USA Today Report

The White House is repeating calls for Russia to release Brittney Griner after she was sentenced to nine years by a Russian judge on drug charges. RELATED: Brittney Griner sentenced to nine years in Russia for drug charges https://bit.ly/3oV4D0f The trial of Brittney Griner ended Thursday with the WNBA star expressing remorse for accidentally packing vape cartridges with cannabis. Hours later, a judge sentenced her to nine years in prison, and Griner headed back to the pre-trial detention facility where she has been held since her arrest at a Moscow airport in mid-February. She’ll stay there. For now. Sometime in the coming weeks, Brittney Griner will temporarily disappear while on her way to a female-only penal colony. That is the reality for a foreigner in Russia’s legal system, leaving their families worried and in the dark.

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