The American athlete, Olympic and world basketball champion, has been imprisoned since February in Russia for drug possession.
Cathy Engelbertcommissioner of Women’s National Basketball Associationensured that Brittney Griner “is still illegally detained”, after the Russian Justice rejected the player’s appeal phoenixmercury of WNBA and keep in effect the sentence of nine years in prison for drug possession.
“Today’s decision, while unhappy, was unexpected and Brittney Griner remains wrongfully imprisoned. We greatly appreciate the efforts of the United States Administration and Department of State to lead the negotiations”he said Engelbert in a statement published by WNBA. “Time to close the case and bring ‘BG’ home”he added.
did it afterwards the judicial collegium of the Court of the Moscow region will consider the sentence legal of nine years issued against the American athlete who was arrested in February with several cartridges of cannabis oil in his suitcase.
The judge’s decision the sentence was kept unchangedexcept for the fact that for every day that the convicted person spends in preventive detention in Moscowwhere he has been for eight months, shall count as one and a half days of his total sentence.
Source: Tycsports
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