{"id":1397268,"date":"2022-03-23T21:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T01:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397268"},"modified":"2022-03-23T21:14:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T01:14:52","slug":"report-wnbas-brittney-griner-could-face-5-years-in-russian-labor-camp-over-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-wnbas-brittney-griner-could-face-5-years-in-russian-labor-camp-over-drug-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: WNBA&#039;s Brittney Griner Could Face 5 Years in Russian Labor Camp Over Drug Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Freport-wnbas-brittney-griner-could-face-5-years-in-russian-labor-camp-over-drug-charges%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=1397268&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\">WNBA star Brittney Griner could face a dire sentence of up to five years in a Russian labor camp if convicted in Russia on drug charges, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Griner, who plays for the WNBA\u2019s Phoenix Mercury, was arrested in a Moscow airport in February and charged with having illegal cannabis in vaping cartridges in her luggage.<\/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>A Fox News analyst recently noted that Griner could face between five and ten years for drug smuggling if convicted. And some of that time could be spent in a labor camp, expert Peter Maggs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/us-olympian-brittney-griner-5-years-russian-labor-camp-expert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Fox News.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner. (Christian Petersen\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re talking about five years, not jail time, but a labor camp,\u201d Magg said. \u201cOne thing I find a little worrisome is this extension of her preliminary holding from two months to three months, because you have to go to a higher authority to get it lengthened.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, the Russian government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/17\/russia-to-detain-wnba-star-brittney-griner-two-more-months\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that Griner would be detained for two more months before she is sent before a court to face charges.<\/p>\n<p>Maggs also noted that it isn\u2019t beyond Russia to have planted the vape cartridges on Griner for political purposes as an attack on the USA. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what really happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Biden\u2019s Secretary of State Antony Blinken insisted that the U.S. is monitoring the situation and is ready to \u201cprovide every possible assistance\u201d to seven-time All-Star WNBA center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s only so much I can say given the privacy considerations at this point,\u201d Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/08\/antony-blinken-u-s-will-provide-every-possible-assistance-wnba-player-arrested-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cWhenever an American is detained anywhere in the world, we of course stand ready to provide every possible assistance, and that includes in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Mercury released a statement about Griner\u2019s arrest on March 5:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1u5zsUtVKu\">pic.twitter.com\/1u5zsUtVKu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Phoenix Mercury (@PhoenixMercury) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhoenixMercury\/status\/1500145952752947201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Griner was in Russia to play with the Russian women\u2019s basketball team UMMC Ekaterinburg.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA star Brittney Griner could face a dire sentence of up to five years in a Russian labor camp if convicted in Russia on drug charges, according to a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}