{"id":1710347,"date":"2022-10-25T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710347"},"modified":"2022-10-25T11:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:48:41","slug":"wnbas-brittney-griner-to-serve-9-year-term-in-russia-after-losing-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wnbas-brittney-griner-to-serve-9-year-term-in-russia-after-losing-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBA&#8217;s Brittney Griner to Serve 9-Year Term in Russia After Losing Appeal"},"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\">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%2Fwnbas-brittney-griner-to-serve-9-year-term-in-russia-after-losing-appeal%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=1710347&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/original_griner.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>                A Russian court upheld the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-brittney-griner-sentenced-to-nine-years-in-russian-prison-found-guilty-of-drug-possession\">nine-year prison sentence<\/a> for American basketball player Brittney Griner on Tuesday for drug possession.\u00a0Griner appeared via video at the Moscow Regional Court from a penal colony outside the city, where she is imprisoned and will remain.<\/p>\n<p>Griner was convicted on August 4 after police found vape canisters containing cannabis oil at the Moscow airport where she landed.<\/p>\n<p>Griner&#8217;s appeal was rejected after a ruling on Tuesday to uphold the sentence. The ruling did state that Griner will have time served in prison with her pre-trial detention now being included in her sentence, with each day of pre-trial detention being counted as 1.5 days in prison. Griner will thus have to serve around eight years in a Russian prison, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/9224321\/russia-rejects-brittney-griner-appeal\/\">AP.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Griner&#8217;s arrest came as tensions were high between Russia and the United States and just days before Moscow made the call to send troops to Ukraine. Griner played basketball in a Russian women&#8217;s league during the WNBA&#8217;s off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Griner said that she packed the canisters accidentally and that she was prescribed cannabis for pain. <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-wnbas-brittney-griner-pleads-guilty-to-drug-charges-in-russian-court\">She pleaded guilty<\/a> to the charge. Griner&#8217;s sentence of 9 years was close to the maximum of 10, with her legal team saying that the punishment was excessive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d like to plead guilty, your honor. But there was no intent. I didn&#8217;t want to break the law,&#8221; Griner said, speaking English to the court.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>The White House told reporters following her conviction that they were aggressively pursuing every avenue to bring home Griner to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that negotiations between the Biden administration and Russia to bring Griner home remain ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Russia is wrongfully detaining Brittney,&#8221; Jean-Pierre said. &#8220;She never should have had to endure a trial in the first place. We have repeatedly called for Russia to release her immediately so she can be with her wife, loved ones, friends, and teammates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In July, there were reports that the Biden administration offered to exchange a <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-biden-offers-prisoner-swap-of-us-held-russian-arms-dealer-in-exchange-for-brittney-griner-paul-whelan\">convicted Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout<\/a> for the release of Griner and Pail Whelan.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Russian court upheld the nine-year prison sentence for American basketball player Brittney Griner on Tuesday for drug possession.\u00a0Griner appeared via video at the Moscow Regional Court from a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710350,"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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710347","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=1710347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}