{"id":1474319,"date":"2022-05-13T12:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474319"},"modified":"2022-05-13T12:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T16:14:48","slug":"wnba-all-star-brittney-griners-detainment-in-russia-extended-ahead-of-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wnba-all-star-brittney-griners-detainment-in-russia-extended-ahead-of-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner\u2019s Detainment In Russia Extended Ahead Of Trial"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fwnba-all-star-brittney-griners-detainment-in-russia-extended-ahead-of-trial%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=1474319&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Brittney-Griner.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>WNBA All-Star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner\u2019s pretrial detention in Russia has been extended for one month.<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Boykov, Griner\u2019s attorney, said that the relatively short extension signals that Griner\u2019s case will likely be in court soon, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/33908688\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-appears-moscow-court-detention-hearing\">Associated Press<\/a>. Russian authorities have held Griner for nearly three months for allegedly possessing a marijuana derivative taken through vaping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not receive any complaints about the detention conditions from our client,\u201d Boykov said.<\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities allegedly found vape cartridges filled with a cannabis derivative while searching Griner\u2019s luggage at an airport. Griner faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>United States officials are pushing to get Griner released, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-government-to-consider-brittney-griner-wrongfully-detained-by-russia-report\">claiming<\/a> that her detainment is unjust. With U.S.-Russia relations at their lowest point in decades, however, U.S. diplomacy appears to not be having much effect.<\/p>\n<p>Griner\u2019s detainment comes at a time of high tension between Russia and the West. Russia launched a full-scale invasion of the former Soviet state of Ukraine in late February. The United States and Europe have approved tens of billions of dollars-worth of aid, supplies, and military equipment to the Ukrainian government to help it fight back the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Griner is a star in the WNBA, playing for the Phoenix Mercury. She also competes for the Russian team UMMC Ekaterinburg during the WNBA offseason, playing overseas along with many other WNBA athletes.<\/p>\n<p>She was reportedly returning to Moscow after playing in a tournament when she was allegedly busted by Russian officials. Aron Solomon, Chief Legal Analyst for Esquire Digital, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/shes-a-political-prisoner-wnbas-brittney-griner-remains-in-russia\">told<\/a> The Daily Wire in March that predicting the outcome in Griner\u2019s case is difficult because of the politicization of Russia\u2019s legal process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething that is very important for us in the United States to kind of keep our eyes and ears on is the fact that as we\u2019ve seen over the past few weeks, Russia\u2019s not a democracy,\u201d Solomon said. \u201cAnd the rule of law that we often take for granted in the United States doesn\u2019t exist in Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A prediction on the case is \u201cimpossible to make because it\u2019s based entirely on something that is anti-legal, which is caprice, which is the government\u2019s desire to do whatever they want when they want,\u201d Solomon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA All-Star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner\u2019s pretrial detention in Russia has been extended for one month.Alexander Boykov, Griner\u2019s attorney, said that the relatively short extension signals that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1482865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474319","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\/1474319","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}