The basketball star has been detained in Russia since February for possessing vape cartridges containing hash oil in her luggage while passing through an airport, and was charged with “large scale transportation of drugs.”
Britney Griner’s nine-year sentence for “drug smuggling” has been upheld in a Russian court, thereports. In August, Griner was found guilty andThe decision, announced Tuesday, comes from a three-judge Russian appeals court outside Moscow. Griner’s legal team said that it was “very disappointed.”
“The verdict contains numerous defects and we hoped that the court of appeal would take them into consideration,” Griner’s team said in a statement provided to theAlthough there are other options for taking her case further, since there are two higher courts in Russia, Griner’s team said that it had not yet decided whether or not they would continue to go through the Russian court system. In the absence of further intervention, Griner will begin serving her sentence soon in a penal colony.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan slammed the verdict, saying that Griner was “wrongfully detained under intolerable circumstances after having to undergo another sham judicial proceeding today.”
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