{"id":1397060,"date":"2022-03-23T18:14:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T22:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397060"},"modified":"2022-03-23T18:15:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T22:15:03","slug":"state-department-wnba-star-brittney-griner-in-good-condition-in-russian-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-wnba-star-brittney-griner-in-good-condition-in-russian-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department: WNBA Star Brittney Griner in &#039;Good Condition&#039; in Russian Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-department-wnba-star-brittney-griner-in-good-condition-in-russian-jail%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397060&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that a U.S. Embassy official has visited with WNBA star Brittney Griner, who remains detained near Moscow, to check on her condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">State Department spokesperson Ned Price told CNN the official found Griner \u201cto be in good condition.\u201d Price did not identify the official who had been granted consular access to Griner, something the United States had been demanding.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Griner was detained after arriving at a Moscow airport, reportedly in mid-February, after Russian authorities said a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges that allegedly contained oil derived from cannabis, which could carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Russian state news agency Tass reported last week that a court had extended\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brittney-griner-russia-arrest-extended-d769f6dfe03a3b55f23ef24960dae787\">Griner\u2019s pretrial detention to May 19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Price says the U.S. \u201cwill do everything we can to see that she is treated fairly throughout this ordeal.\u201d\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-europe-nato-e35e54b40359e52f3ffd4911577b669a\">Griner\u2019s legal ordeal comes amid tension between Russia and the U.S. over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">A member of a Russian state-backed prison monitoring group visited with Griner last week at the pretrial detention facility outside Moscow where she\u2019s being held and said the Phoenix Mercury star was faring well behind bars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\"><em>Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner. (AP Photo\/Michael Conroy)<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Griner\u2019s lawyers have been visiting her regularly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">The legal team for the two-time Olympic gold-medalist has been quietly seeking her release and has declined to speak out about the case since her arrest was made public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Of the thousands of U.S. citizens arrested and jailed in prisons abroad, a small subset are designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained \u2014 a category that affords their cases an extra level of government attention and places them under the auspices of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs at the State Department. The U.S. government has not yet put Griner\u2019s case in that category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-71 Component-p-0-2-62\">Griner is not the only American detained in Russia. Marine veteran Trevor Reed was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2020 on charges alleging that he assaulted police officers in Moscow. And Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on espionage charges that his family and the U.S. government have said are false. U.S. officials have publicly called for Moscow to release them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that a U.S. Embassy official has visited with WNBA star Brittney Griner, who remains detained near Moscow, to check on her condition. 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