{"id":1710038,"date":"2022-10-25T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710038"},"modified":"2022-10-25T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:49:14","slug":"wnbas-brittney-griners-9-year-prison-sentence-upheld-in-russian-appeal-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wnbas-brittney-griners-9-year-prison-sentence-upheld-in-russian-appeal-court\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA\u2019s Brittney Griner\u2019s 9-Year Prison Sentence Upheld In Russian Appeal Court"},"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\">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%2Fwnbas-brittney-griners-9-year-prison-sentence-upheld-in-russian-appeal-court%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=1710038&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>WNBA star Brittney Griner\u2019s nine-year prison sentence was upheld on Tuesday during a Moscow regional court hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Mercury center and her legal team had hoped for an acquittal or reduction in the sentence that they believed was too severe and politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo judge, hand on heart, will honestly say that Griner\u2019s nine-year sentence is in line with Russian criminal law,\u201d Alexander Boykov, one of Griner\u2019s lawyers, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/russian-court-starts-hearing-appeal-jailed-us-basketball-star-brittney-griner-2022-10-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cif the court wants to punish her, [it should] give her a new, \u2018fair\u2019 verdict and mitigate the punishment. The severity and cruelty of the sentence applied to Griner shocks people around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Griner\u2019s arrest occurred just four days before Russia invaded Ukraine in February. She has now been held for eight months. The 6-foot, 9-inch center was sentenced in August, receiving just under the ten-year maximum sentence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never meant to hurt anybody, I never meant to put in jeopardy the Russian population, I never meant to break any laws here,\u201d Griner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wnba-star-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-9-years-in-russian-prison\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0ahead of her verdict. \u201cI made an honest mistake and I hope that in your ruling that it doesn\u2019t end my life here. I know everybody keeps talking about political pawn and politics, but I hope that that is far from this courtroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A growing number of Americans have called for the Biden administration to do more to secure Griner\u2019s release.\u00a0Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving took to the microphone at midcourt before his team\u2019s season opener to call on President Joe Biden to bring Griner home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate us being able to share this floor together, all of us as brothers. But the big picture that\u2019s going on in the world is free our sister, Brittney Griner. Please,\u201d Irving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/potus-do-your-job-nbas-kyrie-irving-calls-on-biden-to-get-wnbas-brittney-griner-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shared<\/a> with the home crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPOTUS, do your job. Everybody do your job. Please bring our sister home. We wouldn\u2019t be doing our jobs to the best of our ability if we didn\u2019t stand for what we believe in,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Many across the WNBA also expressed support for Griner last Tuesday on her 32nd birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy Birthday Brittney Griner, we will not forget about you and we will not stop fighting for you. The W won\u2019t be the same until you\u2019re home,\u201d the league\u2019s Twitter account posted.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Happy Birthday Brittney Griner, we will not forget about you and we will not stop fighting for you. The W won\u2019t be the same until you\u2019re home \ud83e\udde1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreBG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreBG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J5sO2EkGLL\">pic.twitter.com\/J5sO2EkGLL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WNBA (@WNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WNBA\/status\/1582372188132233216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy Birthday Brittney Griner, we will not forget about you and we will not stop fighting for you. The W won\u2019t be the same until you\u2019re home \ud83e\udde1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreBG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WeAreBG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J5sO2EkGLL\">pic.twitter.com\/J5sO2EkGLL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WNBA (@WNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WNBA\/status\/1582372188132233216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration had previously attempted a prisoner swap involving \u201cMerchant of Death\u201d arms dealer Viktor Bout for Griner and American Paul Whelan. The attempts have so far proven unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have not responded to our offer. We have made a serious offer to get Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan back home. The Russians have not responded to that offer. But that doesn\u2019t mean that \u2014 that we\u2019re not still in negotiations and we\u2019re not still trying,\u201d White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/documents\/press-briefing-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-national-security-council-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WNBA star Brittney Griner\u2019s nine-year prison sentence was upheld on Tuesday during a Moscow regional court hearing. The Phoenix Mercury center and her legal team had hoped for an acquittal or reduction in the sentence that they believed was too severe and politically motivated. \u201cNo judge, hand on heart, will honestly say that Griner\u2019s nine-year &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WNBA\u2019s Brittney Griner\u2019s 9-Year Prison Sentence Upheld In Russian Appeal Court","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"WNBA\u2019s Brittney Griner\u2019s 9-Year Prison Sentence Upheld In Russian Appeal Court","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710038","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}