Brittney Griner will appeal her case today in Russian court

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Brittney Griner will appeal her case today in Russian court​

Brittney Griner is set to appeal her verdict in Russian court Tuesday, nearly three months after the US basketball star was convicted of smuggling drugs into the country and sentenced to nine years in prison. Griner's appeal will be considered in the Moscow Regional Court in a hearing at which her attorneys are expected to argue the verdict was unfair and unjustified under Russian law, they told CNN. Griner, 32, will attend the hearing via video conference from her detention center. The outcome of the appeal is expected the same day as the hearing, according to the lawyers, Alexander Boykov of the Moscow Legal Center and Maria Blagovolina, a partner at Rybalkin, Gortsunyan, Dyakin and Partners law firm. The court hearing the appeal can choose to leave Griner’s verdict in place, overrule it and send it back to the lower court, or reduce Griner’s prison term, they said. Griner was initially taken into custody at a Moscow airport on February 17 days before the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine when authorities accused her of trying to smuggle less than a gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. Griner plays in Russia during the WNBA’s offseason.

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Brittney Griner is escorted from a courtroom after a hearing in Khimki, just outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022

 

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American basketball star Brittney Griner loses appeal in Russian court​

American basketball star Brittney Griner lost her appeal in a Russian court to overturn her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession. Ian Lee reports for CBS2.

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Brittney Griner's Lawyers 'Disappointed' in Russian Court's Decision to Uphold 9-Year Prison Sentence​

A Russian court upheld Brittney Griner's nine-year sentence on drug smuggling charges Tuesday, despite attorneys for the 32-year-old WNBA star arguing against her lengthy sentence in front of a three-judge appeal panel. Griner's attorneys, Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov, expressed their disappointment with the ruling in a statement shared with PEOPLE. "It is not what we expected," their statement read. "We are very disappointed. The verdict contains numerous defects and we hoped that the court of appeal would take them into consideration. We still think the punishment is excessive and contradicts to the existing court practice." Blagovolina and Boykov said Griner's "biggest fear" is that she will have to serve the entirety of her sentence unless Russia and the United States come to an agreement on a prisoner exchange. "She had hopes for today as each month, each day away from her family and friends matters to her," they said.

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Brittney Griner Supporters Planning Russian Embassy Outing, per Report​

Cannabis advocates are planning a demonstration to demand Griner’s release from a Russian prison. As WNBA star Brittney Griner remains imprisoned in Russia, a group of cannabis activists is reportedly planning a demonstration outside of the Russian embassy in Washington, D.C. The group is calling the outing a “smoke out,” with participants planning on smoking marijuana and demanding Griner’s release.

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Washington DC Marijuana Advocates Show Support for Brittney Griner With Smokeout in Front of Russian Embassy​

WNBA star Brittney Griner’s Russian legal case may have come to an end on Tuesday when her appeal was denied, but the basketball champion’s supporters are letting the world know they still have her back. According to Yahoo!, on Thursday, members of the group DC Marijuana Justice showed up outside the Russian embassy in Washington DC to protest Griner’s wrongful detainment by holding a “smoke out.” Beginning at 4:20 p.m. ET—because of course, that’s the time they chose—protesters smoked marijuana and displayed a 51-foot inflatable joint that read “Free Britney Griner and the Russians from Putin” on one side and “Free 420 Prisoners” on the other.

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Brittney Griner will appeal her case today in Russian court​

 

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Sports made Brittney Griner a target. Now they’re her lifeline.​

By the middle of the summer, 3½ years had passed since Russian intelligence agents, working for the country’s latest iteration of its notorious KGB, stormed into American Paul Whelan’s Moscow hotel room, pinned him to the floor and accused him of spying, for which the Russian judicial system eventually sentenced him to 16 years in a Mordovian gulag. Still, his story was little told. And when it was, I found after checking a database of 8,000-plus news sources including periodicals, websites and blogs, his and his family’s pleas for help were heard without much resound, rarely generating more than 100 reports per month. That despite desperate public protests such as the one outside the White House in May.

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Jailed basketball star Brittney Griner ‘100 per cent not OK’, says wife​

Cherelle Griner gave fans an update about how Brittney is fairing during Glamour's Women of the Year Awards Tuesday (1 November). She also shared an emotional letter she’d written to her wife, opening up about how difficult things have been since Brittney was arrested in February. The queer Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) player was detained at Sheremetyevo International Airport and was accused of having vape cartridges containing hashish oil, which is illegal in Russia. “I’ve spent the last eight months riding waves of grief and to be honest, just total disbelief,” she said. “I can’t believe that I’m standing in front of you guys today and living without my favourite person, my greatest love, my sanctuary. ”Cherelle said her wife is “100 per cent not okay” despite her strength, and she said there’s “little [she] can do to ease [Brittney’s] pain”. “But I believe from the bottom of my heart that while I can’t bring her back, words can make a difference,” she said.

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Brittney Griner situation explained: WNBA star gets visit from U.S. Embassy officials in Russian prison​

Brittney Griner, an eight-time WNBA All-Star and two-time WNBA Defensive Player of the Year, was found guilty on drug charges in Russia and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison in August. Her legal team attempted to appeal on Oct. 25, but her sentence was upheld. CBS Newd reported that U.S. Embassy officials in Moscow met with Griner on Thursday, Nov. 3. "We are told she's doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters aboard Air Force One. "I can also tell you that in the subsequent weeks, despite a lack of good faith negotiation by the Russians, the U.S. government has continued to follow up on that offer and propose alternative potential ways forward with Russians through all available channels.


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Brittney Griner meets with U.S. officials, as the Biden administration tries to release her​

After a rejected appeal of her nine-year prison sentence in Russia, Brittney Griner met with officials from the U.S. Embassy on Thursday, according to ABC News. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Griner is “doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances.” Jean-Pierre also said the U.S. has made a “significant offer” to resolve Griner’s detention, as well as former marine Paul Whelan’s detainment, CNN reported.

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Every day, heartbroken': Taurasi discusses Brittney Griner situation, return to next season​

Diana Taurasi says she is constantly heartbroken at her teammate Brittney Griner's situation and suggested it may give WNBA players second thoughts about playing in Russia. “We’re heartbroken. Every day, heartbroken," Taurasi said. "Our sole energy is to get her home as soon as possible, as safe as possible. And it’s heartbreaking to think that she’s stuck in prison somewhere in Russia, a place where we gave a lot of our energy and a lot of our effort to make sure they have the best teams in the world. We wake up every day sad, but with a lot of hope that it’s gonna happen soon."

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Brittney Griner moving to Russian penal colony, exact location unknown
The transfer began Friday, her lawyers said, a day after U.S. embassy officials visited her and far ahead of the schedule they had anticipated after Griner's appeal was denied Oct. 25.

 

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Brittney Griner's already fraught wrongful imprisonment in Russia just got even worse in a horrifying way​

It’s been 8 months since Russia wrongfully detained Brittney Griner for having vape cartridges with hashish oil. In the time since Griner has been sentenced to 9 years in prison. Her family and supporters have constantly called for her release to no avail. No progress has been made. The US government offered to swap prisoners with Russia swap, but it didn’t work. Griner and her lawyers tried to appeal her sentence, but it was denied.

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Your little hero is going to do 9 in a "penal" colony. Like you did for a month.

She'll probably learn to take serious dick. Like you did for a month.

It won't be black dick either. Where do you think the term "White Russian" came from?

 

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A Pussy Riot member describes what Brittney Griner can expect in Russian penal colony​

This week, lawyers for jailed American basketball star Brittney Griner revealed she is currently on her way to a Russian penal colony to begin serving out her nine-year sentence on drug smuggling charges. Which prison, exactly, is unknown. Neither is Griner's current location. Prisoner transfers often take several weeks, and only then are Russian authorities required to reveal a convict's whereabouts, Griner's legal team says. "If jail is possible to imagine, then a penal colony, you can only imagine reading dissidents' books," says Maria Alyokhina, who spent nearly two years in a colony following a protest performance in a Moscow church as a member of the renowned feminist punk collective Pussy Riot. Aloykhina says while most Americans imagine prison cells with bars, Griner can expect to live in "the zone" a set of barracks with 80 to 100 women sleeping to a room and few, if any, amenities.

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Do you think she'll grow to like thick white cock after taking it a few times?

 

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Brittney Griner Sent To Harsher Than Normal, Russian Prison For Women​

Professional basketball player Brittney Griner will unfortunately be taking a long break from the court after being sentenced to nine years imprisonment in Russia. The 32-year-old sports star will spend almost the next decade of her life in one of the harshest prison setting in the world. This news comes after the world champion got into legal trouble when the Sheremetyevo Airport staff found hash oil in her luggage in Moscow. She will be serving time in the women-only general regime colony, which is much harsher than the settlement colony. Per reports, ex-inmates of the general regime colony, like Sarah Krivanek, came out to confirm the horrors of the high-security prisons. She noted that they had stricter rules and more guards than the settlement colonies. She also explained that there was a huge language barrier between the inmates.

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Brittney Griner’s grim penal colony fate: ‘You’re starved just by the food’​

Brittney Griner will endure merciless conditions inside a Russian penal colony where rancid food, extreme isolation and tyrannical wardens await the WNBA star, former Russian prison inmates, their relatives and penitentiary experts told The Post. Former US Marine Trevor Rowdy Reed, who spent nearly 1,000 days detained in Russia, was freed in April in exchange for Konstantin Yaroshenko, a Russian pilot serving a 20-year prison sentence for conspiring to smuggle more than $100 billion of cocaine into New York.

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Brittney Griner will appeal her case today in Russian court​