The WNBA basketball player has begun litigation in Russia against him for ‘major drug trafficking’. His lawyer demanded that he be released and not be treated as a ‘political pawn’.
American WNBA player Brittney Grinerwhich began on July 1 in a trial that will determine whether he spends 10 years in prison in Russia for ‘big drug hustle’wrote a desperate letter to the president Joe Biden. Cannabis vape cartridges were found on him at an airport in Moscow. Less than 1% of criminals detained in Russia complete the judicial process without conviction, so there is almost no hope, the Washington-Moscow tension unhelpful and believed to be a political pawn.
He was sent by the player’s representatives ESPN The handwritten letter he wrote to the President of the United States, Joe Biden. “I’m afraid I could be here forever,” can be read in one of the extracts. “I know you have a lot of work to do but please don’t forget about me and the other detainees (…). Please do everything you can to get us home”He added.
The letter was released on U.S. Independence Day, July 4. “It hurts me to think of how I usually celebrate this day because independence means something completely different to me this year,” he added.
“I miss my wife! I miss my family! I miss my teammates! It kills me to know that they are suffering so much right now. I am grateful for all you can do at this time to bring me home, “he said.
The U.S. Department of Justice said the player was being held illegally. Russia maintains that its law dictates this and that what was found in Griner’s luggage was sufficient to justify the situation in which it found itself.
Russian media is speculating on an exchange of prisoners and they are seeking the release of an arms dealer named Viktor Bout, ´The dealer of death; sentenced to 25 years in prison in the United States for conspiring to murder American citizens and providing assistance to a terrorist organization.
With information from EFE
Source: Tycsports
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